Date: 14.11. – 14.11.2024
Time: 18:20
Title: Saint Elizabeth Square | Lumière Under Fire: 80th Anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising
Location: Kino Lumière (K3), Špitálska 4, Bratislava
Organizer: Kino Lumière (K3), K3

Event Description:
The film Saint Elizabeth Square was made in the same year as the much more famous The Shop on Main Street. Both films are adaptations of literary texts, and in both, the theme of wartime anti-Semitism, Jewish deportations, and a critical view of the responsibility of the majority is fully explored. This follows films like The Organ, which tells the story of a hidden Jewish family, and The Boxer and Death, which, though not explicitly focused on the Jewish Holocaust, is set in a concentration camp.

The portrayal of the contemporary Jewish urban community and the other characters reacting to hostility and injustice towards the ethnic minority in Saint Elizabeth Square is more socially and characteristically diverse than in The Shop on Main Street. The idea of an unintentional killing in Saint Elizabeth Square stands in opposition to the premeditated robbery murder, but the love story of a Jewish girl and a poor boy carries the idea of mutual solidarity.

Saint Elizabeth Square, along with selected documentaries and other feature films on the resistance theme, presents the “reverse” side of events – a period portrayal of the state in which these events took place.