Everything is a present Alice Sommer Herz, sage, saint, maven

DVD 2009

Christopher Nupen's film portrays Alice Sommer Herz, a woman with the true gift of forgiveness. A Nazi concentration camp prisoner for two years with her six-year-old son, suffering deaths of her mother and her husband in the camp, she also remembers playing more than 100 concerts in the camp and likens the experience, both for the performers and for the listeners, to being close to the divine. Alice is in no doubt that music saved her sanity as...

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Herz-Sommer, Alice, 1903-2014

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Czech Republic

Women pianists Czech Republic Prague Biography

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1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
polychrome
digital
optical
stereo
Dolby digital 2.0
NTSC
video file
DVD video
all regions

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: not rated

Other Title:

Alice Sommer Herz : everything is a present
Title on container: Wonder and the grace of Alice Sommer Herz

Notes:

Filmed when Alice Sommer was ninety-eight
Booklet (15 p. : col. ill.) with program, an essay by Christopher Nupen in English with French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese translations, and an essay by Caroline Nupen in English inserted in container
Still photographs, Matthew Percival
Alice Sommer Herz, interviewee and performer (piano), Gigi Sommer
DVD; NTSC, all regions; aspect ratio: 16:9; Dolby Digital 2.0
In English and German with optional subtitles in German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish

Contents:

Everything is a present (ca. 48 min.)
Sonata no. 14 in C-sharp minor, op. 27 no. 2. First movement / Beethoven (ca. 6 min.)

Control Number:

1184295

UPC:

814446010079

Other Authors:

Allegro Films (London, England)
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Sonatas, piano, no. 14, op. 27, no. 2, C♯ minor. Selections
Herz-Sommer, Alice, 1903-2014, performer, interviewee
Nupen, Christopher, screenwriter, director, interviewer
Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. Impromptus, piano, D. 935. No. 2
Smetana, Bedřich, 1824-1884. České tance. Selections

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