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On Oct. 19, 1965, shortly after the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial — the first trial of Germans by Germans for the crimes of the Holocaust — playwright Peter Weiss premiered The Investigation. The play drew on the verbatim testimony of SS officers, Nazi functionaries and camp survivors, to reconstruct the genocidal horror in harrowing, undeniable detail.

Eschewing depictions of the camp itself, The Investigation relies on the words of the perpetrators and their victims to lay bare the greatest crime of the 20th century.

On Jan. 27, 2025, 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army, the first film adaptation of The Investigation will premiere in Israel. R.P. Kahl’s faithful, four-hour-long re-creation will screen at the Cinematheque Tel Aviv on Monday and at the Cinematheque Jerusalem on Tuesday, Jan. 28.

The Investigation

“Showing the film in Israel, particularly in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, is deeply meaningful to us,” says The Investigation producer Alexander van Dülmen.

The Umbrella Academy soundtrack in season 1 is an eclectic mix of classic and modern songs that perfectly complement the show's plot and vibe. The show has gained critical acclaim and viewership over its three seasons, with the latest season introducing a new group of heroes known as "the Sparrow Academy." Each song in the soundtrack is carefully chosen to enhance key moments in the series, creating iconic scenes that resonate with viewers and fans alike.

The Umbrella Academy soundtrack in season 1 is an eclectic mix, from classic songs by The Doors and Nina Simone to modern hits like Woodkid's "Run Boy Run," with a few more obscure numbers thrown in as well. The TV show, based on the comics by Gerard Way and Gabriel B, is about a group of kids with extraordinary abilities who are collected by an obsessive scientist and trained to become a superhero team. As adults,...

Donald Trump’s rally in Montana Friday sparked a strong social media reaction after Celine Dion’s ‘My Heart Will Go On’ – her Oscar-winning song from Titanic – was blared out from the speakers shortly before the presidential hopeful took to the stage.

The Daily Mail reports that the irony of an ode to a sinking ship being played at the event was not lost on observers, many of whom took to social media, one even asking if Trump’s team had a mole from Kamala Harris’s side, intent on trolling Trump with the choice of song.

This raises the question of whether the campaign has the rights, owned by 20th Century Fox, to use the song publicly. Update: The Grammy-winning singer’s management team and record label Sony Music Entertainment Canada issued a statement Saturday, making it clear that “in no way is this use authorized, and Celine Dion...

The “Dancing with the Stars” semifinalists will have to survive two dances and a double elimination if they want to make it to the final.

The remaining six couples will perform two individual routines on Monday, first a redemption dance of a style they struggled with earlier in the season and then a new style. Two couples will be eliminated, sending four into the final. This would be the second double elimination of the season if the first hadn’t been nixed due to Jeannie Mai‘s withdrawal.

Here are the Week 10 routines:

Kaitlyn Bristowe and Artem Chigvintsev: paso doble (“Hanuman” by Rodrigo Y Gabriela) and contemporary (“Cowboy Take Me Away” by The Chicks)

Skai Jackson and Alan Bersten: cha-cha (“Move Your Feet” by Junior Senior) and Viennese waltz (“Lonely” by Noah Cyrus)

Justina Machado and Sasha Farber: tango (“El Tango de Roxanne” from “Moulin Rouge”) and...

Sandra Kaudelka and Sebastian Metz have been named joint winners of the Berlinale’s third “Made in Germany” prize.

The €15,000 cash prize towards the development of a new feature will be shared equally between the two filmmakers who had presented projects at last year’s Perspektive Deutsches Kino.

At that time, both films were documentaries: Metz’s Metamorphosen was set in Russia, while Kaudelka’s Einzelkaempfer focused on cases of doping among East German athletes.

But Metz and Kudelka had each submitted fiction film treatments for consideration for the Made in Germany grant.

Metz’s project, entitled 274, which follows a man on his journey to Manila to end his life, had impressed the jury of film directors Andres Veiel and Frieder Schlaich and writer-producer Katja Eichinger by its “intensity” and “visual power”.

Meanwhile, Kaudelka’s Intershop centres on a love story in the setting of one of former East Germany’s hard currency Intershops.

According to Perspektive...