One hundred cinemas around the world are recalling Bruno Schulz, with Finding Pictures by Benjamin Geissler.

For the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the murder of Jewish-Polish writer and painter Bruno Schulz, one hundred cinemas scattered around the world are recalling his figure, by all screening Benjamin Geissler’s documentary Finding Pictures on the same day. In Turin, the Museum is proposing the film in collaboration with the Turin Goethe-Institut, the Widespread Resistance Museum and the Franco Antonicelli Cultural Union.

Admission 6.00/4.00/3.00 euro.

Benjamin Geissler

Finding Pictures (Bilder finden)

(Germany 2002, 106’, DCP, col., o.v. it. s/t)

Bruno Schulz lived through the terror of German occupation in the Galician city of Drohobych in 1941- 42. In order to save his life, he had to paint murals for children in a villa commandeered by an SS officer from Vienna, Felix Landau. Bruno Schulz was killed by the SS on 19 November 1942. Following the end of the war, these murals were not found, in spite of detailed searches. On 9 February 2001, documentary filmmaker Benjamin Geissler discovered the paintings, which were believed to have vanished. In May 2001, fragments of those murals were lifted from the walls by members of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem during a secret and illegal raid, and carried to Israel. This action by Yad Vashem caused controversy worldwide.