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Defiant Requiem, a feature-length documentary film, highlights the most dramatic example of intellectual and artistic courage in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) Concentration Camp during World War II: the remarkable story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant, young Czech conductor who was arrested and sent to Terezín in 1941.
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Aug 3, 2012 · With Kate Grabau, Lindsay Hopper, Bebe Neuwirth, Kelly Tighe. A memorial concert reawakens the story of an artistic uprising in the Nazi concentration camp, Terezin, where a chorus of 150 inmates confronts the Nazis face-to-face - and sings to them what they dare not say.
The signature concert of The Defiant Requiem Foundation, Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín, tells the story of the courageous Jewish prisoners in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp (Terezín) during World War II who performed Verdi’s Requiem while experiencing the depths of human degradation.
Defiant Requiem is about how a rare form of courage, hope, and survival sparked an entirely unique method of fighting Nazi oppression, enabling the prisoners to maintain their dignity and humanity while battling the worst of mankind with the best of mankind.
Defiant Requiem. Imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, composer Rafael Schächter and fellow inmates use the power of music to fight back.
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Mar 24, 2017 · Nowhere was “Defiant Requiem” more disturbing than when scenes from a Nazi propaganda film shot in Terezin played on the screen, while soprano Jennifer Check and mezzo-soprano Ann McMahon ...
Defiant Requiem, a feature-length documentary film, tells the remarkable story of conductor Rafael Schächter who demonstrated moral leadership in the Terezín ghetto by enriching his fellow prisoners’ souls through great music.
Aug 16, 2012 · “Defiant Requiem,” an unsteady but ultimately moving new documentary, tells one of them. The film, directed by Doug Shultz, is anchored by two concerts, both of Verdi’s Requiem.
find courage and sustain hope. How and why did a group of Jews in Terezín Ghetto learn to sing Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem in the original Latin? What did it mean to them and what does it mean for us? This is the story of Defiant Requiem.
