SHERMAN The Jewish Community Center in Sherman "Tales of Documentary Filmmaking," a discussion of his work by Harold Mayer, with a screening of his film "The Inheritance".
Peter Strickland ploughed three years and £28,000 of inheritance into shooting a film in a Hungarian-speaking part of the Romanian region of Transylvania.
A number of props, narrative and physical, appear in both films: a large inheritance, a heroine who breaks a heel, a menace from the animal kingdom, desecrated evening wear, and, above all, a central clash between what Henry Adams used to call the virgin and the dynamo.
She made an initial investment in the film with an inheritance she received from the sale of her parents' house in Canarsie, Brooklyn, where she grew up.
Among his best-sellers were The Scarlatti Inheritance (1971), The Osterman Weekend (1972; film, 1983), The Matarese Circle (1979), and The Bourne Identity (1980; film, 1988, 2002).
FILM ABERDEEN Temple Beth Ahm "Inheritance," documentary.
The film in many ways is not a Holocaust film -- it's about the inheritance of trauma and how the memory of the Holocaust has an impact today.
Did making the film change your perspective on inheritance?
In film, this is the sudden inheritance and parents finding their children in the theater.
They're also waiting for an inheritance, but one that goes unspoken of throughout the film.
