Stella: A Life
German Cinema
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Biography, Drama
Stella Goldschlag (Paula Beer), a young German Jew, grows up in Berlin during the rule of the Nazi regime. Despite all the repressive measures of the time, she still dreams of a career as a jazz singer. After she is forced to go into hiding with her parents in February 1943, her life begins to turn into a culpable tragedy wherein she is inevitably caught by the Gestapo. Tortured and threatened with death, Stella makes the crushing decision to save herself and her parents from deportation to Auschwitz by becoming a “grabber,” systematically betraying other Jews by turning them over to authorities.
Featuring a "dynamite performance" (Filmuforia) by Paula Beer, STELLA: A LIFE tells the shocking real life story of Goldschlag and the great evils ordinary people are capable of when faced with making a morally impossible choice.
“A devastating examination of a soul whose identity is split into parts by history.” –ArtsATL
DIRECTED BY KILIAN RIEDHOF
GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND, UNITED KINGDOM | 2023 | ENGLISH & GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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