Love and Darkness - Act 1
Table Read
Manifest Media / TABLE READ
4.0 • 440 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
ACT 1: We witness Dov Katz's forbidden love for Inga, a non-Jewish girl from their town, much to the dismay of his father, Rabbi Avrum Katz. Meanwhile, Wolf, Dov's brother and a Jewish freedom fighter, returned from Poland with news of the raging war engulfing Europe. Adding to the intrigue, Avrum received a mysterious letter from his estranged father, Moshe, in Budapest, which may hold clues to their unsettling fate revealed in the opening flash forward: becoming prisoners in a Hungarian Jewish Labor unit.
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LOVE & DARKNESS is a multi-generational saga tracking the triumphs and tragedies of a large, powerful Hungarian Jewish family during WWII. Based on an incredible true story.
A Hungarian Rabbi, Avrum Katz, and his family face a relentless storm of anti-Semitic oppression in 1941 Hungary. When their lives are shattered by a secret revealed and a shocking act of violence, they're thrust into a world of dark secrets and impossible choices. As they struggle for survival on the brutal frontlines of war, 'Love & Darkness' is an epic tale of family, sacrifice, and the enduring strength of the human spirit.
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The Table Read Podcast is partnering with HIAS, a Jewish-American nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian aid and assistance to refugees, for this series.
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| 0:29.2 | podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | The mono and Tablerede present love and darkness based on the incredible and brave stories of the true Vessicucia Joseph Braun and his family. Love in darkness by Sunny Pustiglioni. Exterior Forest, Ukrainian Steps, Day. A dense forest, thick with pine and spruce. A pair of |
| 1:10.1 | doves take flight just as a saga antelope burst from the trees. The antelope does take flight just as a saga antelope burst from the trees. |
| 1:14.0 | The antelope scans the area, locates a patch of foliage to supper on. |
| 1:19.0 | Mid-naw, the antelope's ears pop back, nose-sniss sensing danger, quickly he clambers off as a column of uniform |
| 1:29.3 | men 200 in number, under the watchful eyes of Hungarian soldiers on horseback, march into frame. |
| 1:37.0 | Over which a Chiron appears, |
| 1:39.0 | Hungarian Russian border, June 25th, 1941. |
| 1:46.1 | The uniform men are Hungarian Jews. |
| 1:48.6 | Some were Yamakas, all carry pickaxes and shovels. |
| 1:52.6 | They are members of the Hungarian Army's forced labor battalions. |
| 1:56.6 | Conscripted Hungarian Jews no longer allowed to serve in combat |
| 2:01.1 | due to Hungary's anti-Jewish laws. The Jewish men are exhausted and |
| 2:05.6 | worn down but will themselves to keep moving. Exterior Ukrainian forests |
| 2:11.0 | night with our column of Jewish men marching up the side of a hill, |
| 2:15.0 | Ben Forties turns to Mosha 70, |
| 2:18.0 | struggling to keep up. |
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