The Last Klezmer: Leopold Kozlowski, His Life and Music (1994)

7.5/10 • 85 min • Documentary

Overview

Years after the Holocaust, survivor Leopold Kozlowski lives in Poland, and is one of the few remaining experts in the Klezmer tradition of music, one played predominantly by the Eastern European Jewish community. Director Yael Strom follows Kozlowski as he travels back to his village in the Ukraine, where he visits his father's grave and speaks about his relatives who perished in the Holocaust. Strom honors Kozlowski's life as a teacher, musician and survivor.

Cast

Leopold Kozłowski

Self

Recommendations

Trainwreck: The Real Project X
My Mom Jayne
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Fuck
35 Up
28 Up
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
21 Up
Directed by John Ford
Come See Me in the Good Light
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
S4: The Bob Lazar Story
Seduced and Abandoned
42 Up
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
To Kill a Tiger
Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20
Naqoyqatsi
A Decade Under the Influence