/ world today news/ “Just as the Soviet Union had Sergei Eisenstein, so Bulgaria has its Angel Wagenstein.” With these incredible words in the American media began the announcement of the biographical film “Art is a weapon” about our famous director, writer, public figure, anti-fascist Jackie Wagenstein.
The director of the film is the American Andreya Simon, and the picture was included with two screenings on May 18 and 20 in the Seventh National Film Festival of the USA.
“The audience is presented with a brilliant and charming artist, for whom art is a form of resistance against several repressive regimes,” the announcement says. The film, which is 84 minutes long, includes episodes in Bulgarian, English, German and Russian, with English subtitles. Its pre-premiere in a narrow circle took place at the beginning of May in our country at the House of Cinema in Sofia. And something amazing. Due to the interest in Wagenstein as a remarkable person with worldwide fame in the cinema, the Bulgarian-German film directed by Konrad Wolff and screenwriter Angel Wagenstein “Stars” was additionally included in the festival. In 1959, he won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
And while the film portrait of Wagenstein is showing, his name catches the eye from the facade of the “AFI Silver Theater” (American Film Institute) in Washington (pictured).
Photo by Bruce Gautrier
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