LAJFF-Zuzana: Music is Life

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This is the triumphant story told by Zuzana Ruzickova, now 90, and how she became a world-famous harpsichordist under the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia after surviving three concentration camps. Zuzana story is remarkable not just because she returned to Czechoslovakia after the war to fulfill her childhood dream of a career in music; but also in how she navigated Communist and anti-Semitic persecution at home, while becoming a tour-de-force in concerts and competitions worldwide. After the fall of Communism in 1989, Zuzana and her husband, famed Czech composer Viktor Kalabis, worked tirelessly to bring musical education to people throughout the Czech Republic. They are widely credited with helping create Prague’s reputation as a musical city.

Preceded by: Now or Later, short 10 minute film
Elise (Mara Kassin), a Hasidic woman and Mike (Matthew Murumba, Law & Order), an African American man start an unlikely relationship on Shabbat.