Historical films are flooding the television screens like every Holocaust day, from sunset to sunset.
Seemingly, these works present and recreate events that took place 80 years ago, evoke and cultivate memory.
In practice, they overwhelm painfully touching questions about the present: What would we do if we were there?
Would we have survived?
And most importantly - how?
Films produced in the second half of the 20th century focused on questions about physical survival.
They depicted without visual anesthesia the Valley of Physical Weeping, the Uprising in Sobibor and the walls of the ghetto enclosing the Warsaw pianist.
The main motivation of their creators was to revive, and preferably in black and white, the historical situation.
They restored, one by one, the structures of the death camps, but devoted too little screen time to the mental life of the living prisoners.
The camera had a hard time capturing the ongoing struggle to save a human photographer.
The hopes, values and beliefs thanks to which human beings rose at sunrise from the bunks and succeeded in one more day of suffering.
In order to present the inner lives of the inhabitants of the other planet, an actor with dramatic abilities out of this world is required, and that is exactly what Anthony was singing.
Fifteen years ago, Sher, a Shakespearean actor with receipts, embarked on a dramatic correctional campaign.
He was determined to fill the void left by the extroverted Holocaust films, and to allow his audience a glimpse into the souls of the camp Jews.
In 2008 he appeared in a lead role in the English drama "God at Trial".
The film was an adaptation of a well-known story about a group of prisoners, who decide to summon God to the court of Torah.
Accusation: Breach of the covenant.
Sentence: Guilty.
It is impossible to err in the degree of a minister's identification with the initiative, an act of despair, defiance and faith alike.
The Jew, in his eyes, is one who does not give up on God even when God seems to have given up on himself.
A Jew who does not stop protesting, who does not stop praying.
Minister, quite secular, concluded that a significant component in the world of prisoners was their belief in God.
God's silence in the face of what is happening in the world and his coming to terms with the bitter fate of millions of his believers, has preoccupied the latter to a great extent.
They asked "is this a man?"
But they meant to say "Is this God ?!".
It is no coincidence that another of his projects was "Primo", a drama in which he got under the skin of the writer Primo Levy.
In the script signed by Sher, we are exposed to the difficult trials that were the lot of people of faith in the Holocaust, faith in God and faith in man.
Smiling human faces are presented in it as the revelation of God, and violent cruelty - as concealment.
The search for the touch of God's hand does not stop for a moment, and the results are disappointing.
The religious world outside the fences does not match the lurking experiences inside, and in a chilling scene a minister presents Primo's response to a prayer of thanks heard from a prisoner who managed to survive another selection: I would vomit the prayer back. "
Sir Anthony Sher, a troubled Jew, passed away a few months ago.
His Primo Levy will be better remembered than King Lear.
Of blessed memory.
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