
The Return from the Other Planet // 2025 Portland Jewish Film Festival
- Thu, Feb 13
Run Time: 81 min.
TICKETS $15 // FESTIVAL PASS Available Here
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$12 Tickets for Members of the The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
Doors 6:30 p.m.; Event 7 p.m.
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ON SCREEN: The Return from the Other Planet
2023. Directed by Assaf Lapid. Runtime: 81 minutes.
In 1945, a few months after his release from Auschwitz, Yechiel De-Nur, still in his striped jacket, sat down and started writing. After two weeks, he was reborn as Ka-Tzetnik, “the man from the camps.” The books that he wrote were translated into 32 languages and sold millions, while the author himself hid behind the pseudonym Ka-Tzetnik. At the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961 his revelatory testimony revealed his true identity as he described Auschwitz as “the other planet,” a place outside of human judgment. Years later, undergoing an experimental LSD treatment for trauma, he revisits his experience, imagining himself as a SS officer, and that changes everything.
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