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Dawn (Wiesel Novel)
''Dawn'' is a novel by Elie Wiesel, published in 1961. It is the second in a trilogy — ''Night'', ''Dawn'', and ''Day'' — describing Wiesel's experiences and thoughts during and after the Holocaust. Unlike ''Night'', ''Dawn'' is a work of fiction. It tells the story of Elisha, a Holocaust survivor. After the war, Elisha moves to the British Mandate of Palestine and joins the Irgun (in the book known as the Movement), a paramilitary group determined to oust the British from the area. One night, he is told he must execute a British officer at dawn. The novel covers his internal struggle leading up to the execution, looking back on his life and those that have affected it.Wiesel, Elie. ''The Night Trilogy''. p. 140 Synopsis The book starts out in Paris with Elisha, the main character, trying to start over from his childhood at Buchenwald Concentration Camp. A man named Gad stops over at Elisha's house to ask if he will give him his future. Gad wants him to join the Movement. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawn (1985 Film)
''Dawn'' (french: L'Aube, hu, A hajnal) is a 1985 French-Israeli drama film directed by Miklós Jancsó. It was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. The film was a French-Israeli co-production, and the French Ministry of Culture co-financed the production. Plot Starring the British Michael York and Philip Lautard of France. "Dawn" takes place during the British Mandatory Palestine, in 1947. The story follows one night in the life of a young man, a Jewish Holocaust survivor named Elisha, who was guarding a British prisoner during that night, in order to execute him at dawn. This, in retaliation for the killing of members of the Jewish underground. The story is based on The Sergeants affair, the abduction of two British Sergeants by the Irgun and their hanging in a grove in Netanya. Cast * Serge Avedikian * Paul Blain * Christine Boisson as Llana * Philippe Léotard as Gad * Redjep Mitrovitsa as Elisha * Michael York as John Dawson See also * ''Dawn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels About The Holocaust
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 American Novels
Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (25th governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Adler
Sarah Adler ( he, שרה אדלר; born 1978) is a French and Israeli actress with dual citizenship. Career Adler is now best known for her performances in the 2017 Israeli films ''Foxtrot'' and '' The Cakemaker''; earlier in her career her notable films included ''Stones'' (2004), directed by her husband Raphael Nadjari; '' Our Music'' (2004), directed by Jean-Luc Godard; and ''Marie Antoinette'' (2006). Adler was nominated for European Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in ''Our Music'', and Ophir Award for Best Actress for her performance in ''Jellyfish'' which won the Cannes Film Festivals' Caméra d'or. In 2018, she won the Ophir Award The Ophir Awards ( he, פרס אופיר), colloquially known as the Israeli Oscars or the Israeli Academy Awards, are film awards for excellence in the Israeli film industry awarded by the Israeli Academy of Film and Television. The award, named ... for Best Actress for her role in '' The Cakemaker''. Filmography Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Basman
Joel Basman (born 23 January 1990) is a Swiss people, Swiss actor. Early life Basman was born in Zurich, Switzerland, to a Swiss people, Swiss Christian mother and an Israelis, Israeli-Jewish father, both of whom were tailors in the Swiss fashion industry. He grew up in the neighborhood of Aussersihl and was raised bilingual, speaking Swiss German, Swiss-German and Hebrew. He has one older sister who resides in Israel. Career In 2004 he started his career and played a bold teenager named Zizou for the weekly soap opera ''Lüthi und Blanc''. In 2007 director Tobias Ineichen gave the main part to Joel for his film ''Jimmie''. There he played an autism, autistic boy. In February 2008 he got the prize Shooting Stars Award, Shooting Star for his part as a Russian teenager on the film ''Luftibus'', written by director Dominque de Rivaz. In September 2008 Joel received the Schweizer Fernsehpreis (Swiss TV-Prize) in the category film. In October 2008 he got the prize for the best ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Isaacs
Jason Isaacs (born 6 June 1963) is an English actor. Isaac's film roles include Col. Tavington in '' The Patriot'' (2000), Michael D. Steele in '' Black Hawk Down'' (2001), Lucius Malfoy in the ''Harry Potter'' film series (2002–2011), Capt. Hook in ''Peter Pan'' (2003), Marshal Georgy Zhukov in ''The Death of Stalin'' (2017), and Vasili in ''Hotel Mumbai'' (2018). His other films include ''Event Horizon'' (1997), '' Divorcing Jack'' (1998), ''The End of the Affair'' (1999), '' Sweet November'' (2001), ''The Tuxedo'' (2002), ''Battle of the Brave'' (2004), '' Nine Lives'' (2005), ''Friends with Money'' (2006), ''Good'' (2008), ''Green Zone'' (2010), '' Abduction'' (2011), ''A Single Shot'' (2013), '' Fury'' (2014), ''A Cure for Wellness'' (2016), ''London Fields'' (2018), '' Occupation: Rainfall'' (2020), and ''Mass'' (2021). Isaacs' roles in television have included Det. Michael Britten in the NBC series ''Awake'' (2012), Dr. Hunter Aloysius "Hap" Percy in the Netflix su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawn (2014 Film)
''Dawn'' (French: ''L'Aube'', German: ''Morgengrauen'') is a drama film directed by Romed Wyder, written by Billy MacKinnon and based on the novel Dawn by Elie Wiesel. Synopsis Dawn is a psychological drama behind closed doors, in which four comrades in arms pressure the young Elisha to overcome his moral qualms and fully commit to the armed struggle.The story is set in Palestine in 1947, during the British mandate period. The Zionists are fighting for the establishment of a Jewish state. A member of the armed Jewish underground has been sentenced to death by the British authorities. In return, the resistance has kidnapped a British officer, trying to redeem their friend. The insurgents spend the night together, waiting for the outcome of the negotiation. If the British hang their friend at dawn, one of them will shoot the British officer held as a hostage.Based on the novel by Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, Dawn sheds a new light on a key moment in history that allo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romed Wyder
Romed Wyder (born 1967) is a Swiss filmmaker. He has been established in Geneva since 1989. Biography Romed Wyder was born in 1967 in Brig-Glis, Valais, Switzerland. In 1995, he graduated with a degree from the cinema department of the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) (formerly École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Genève). He is an active member of the Cinéma Spoutnik and founded Laika Films with five other filmmakers in 1993. Romed developed a tape to film system and an online widget generator. He founded Paradigma Films SA in 2003. During 12 years he was a member of the Federal Film Commission. Between 2005 and 2008 he was the president of the Swiss Filmmakers Association. He works as director, producer and screenwriter since 1990. Filmography * Et Israël fut... directed and written by Romed Wyder; produced by Yasmine Abd El Aziz and Romed Wyder (2018, documentary, 52 min, DCP) * Dawn (2014 film), Dawn directed by Romed Wyder; written by Billy MacKinnon; based on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Boisson
Christine Boisson (born 8 April 1956) is a French actress. Biography After she registered in a model agency, Just Jaeckin liked her photo, and she got a part in the film ''Emmanuelle'' starring Sylvia Kristel, in which she played a lollipop-sucking teenager who masturbates over a picture of Paul Newman. Then she got some more film roles, but she also continued to study acting. In 1977 she made her stage debut in Chekhov's ''The Seagull'' directed by Bruno Bayen. In 1984, she received the Prix Romy Schneider (most promising actress awards) for ''Rue Barbare''. In 2005, she was starring in the stage play ''Viol'' by Botho Strauß (based on ''Titus Andronicus''), directed by Luc Bondy. In 2010 it was widely reported that she had attempted suicide after she climbed over the parapet of her 5th floor apartment and was stopped by firefighters. In a later interview she said she had done this after an argument with her partner at the time as an act of psychological manipulation, an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Léotard
Philippe Léotard (his full name was Ange Philippe Paul André Léotard-Tomasi; 28 August 1940 – 25 August 2001) was a French actor, poet and singer. Biography He was born in Nice, one of seven children - four girls, then three boys, of which he was the oldest - and was the brother of politician François Léotard. His childhood was normal except for an illness ( rheumatic fever) which struck him and forced him to spend days in bed during which time he read a great many books. He was particularly fond of the poets - Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Blaise Cendrars. He met Ariane Mnouchkine at the Sorbonne and in 1964. Together with students of the ''L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq'', they formed the Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble, Théâtre du Soleil. He played Philippe, the tormented son of a woman with terminal illness in the 1974 drama film ''La Gueule ouverte'' by the controversial director Maurice Pialat. He won a César Award for Best Actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael York (actor)
Michael York OBE (born Michael Hugh Johnson; 27 March 1942) is an English film, television and stage actor. After performing on-stage with the Royal National Theatre, he had a breakthrough in films by playing Tybalt in Franco Zeffirelli's ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1968). His blond, blue-eyed boyish looks and English upper social class demeanor saw him play leading roles in several major British and Hollywood films of the 1970s. His best known roles include Konrad Ludwig in ''Something for Everyone'' (1970), Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in ''Zeppelin'' (1971), Brian Roberts in ''Cabaret'' (1972), George Conway in ''Lost Horizon'' (1973), D'Artagnan in ''The Three Musketeers'' (also 1973) and its two sequels, Count Andrenyi in ''Murder on the Orient Express'' (1974), Logan 5 in ''Logan's Run'' (1976). In his later career he found success as Basil Exposition in the ''Austin Powers'' film series (1997–2002). He is a two-time Emmy Award nominee, for the ''ABC Afterschool Special'': ''Are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
