{"identifier":"DFE-Darien_6312236131112","browse_author":"Erez Laufer (Director), Erez Laufer Films (Producer) and Docs For education - EREZ LAUFER FILMS (Proprietor (Publisher Bloomsbury Video))","subscription_list":["bvl_historyculturepre2023"],"titleByTitle":"Yes","isbn":9781350919549,"description":"A father and his filmmaker son explore the untold story of 1000 Jews from Vienna stranded on the frozen Danube River in the winter of 1941 as they await the life or death decision of their rescue by Ruth Klieger and other Mossad agents who control their fate. In a hotel in Istanbul Ruth Klieger and her fellow agents from the newly created Mossad (Israeli Secret Service) have spent months planning the rescue of the stranded Jewish youth. They bought a ship, the Darien, to transport the youth from Yugoslavia to Palestine. But days before the ship is set to sail, Ruth receives word from the leadership in Tel Aviv that the Darien has been sold to the British to be used in a sabotage attack against the Germans. A heated debate ensues among Ruth and the other agents: do they hand over the Darien to the British as ordered, or do they defy their leaders in Tel Aviv and rescue the desperate refugees waiting along the banks of the Danube? Laufer Nachum, the father, set out to tell a story about his mother\u2018s escape from Europe when he came upon the story of another woman, Ruth, \"The Lady of the Mossad.\" His obsession with Ruth takes him into the bowels of his country\u2019s secret past. Erez, the filmmaker son, creates a unique story within a story, weaving together documentary footage of his father\u2019s quest to tell Ruth\u2019s story, with the moral dilemma facing Ruth, performed by actors and written by his father. Blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, reality and obsession, the Darien Dilemma is a story about a son\u2019s homage to his father\u2019s search to understand a woman\u2019s life and death decision and the history that connects them all. Erez Laufer was born and raised in Israel, and graduated from the Film and Television department at Tel-Aviv University. His film Mike Brant-Laisse Moi T'aime won the 2002 Israeli Academy Award for Best Documentary for 2002, and had its international premiere at the Cannes Film Festival 2003. He has worked on numerous projects with renowned filmmakers Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker, including the Oscar-nominated The War Room, a three-part series celebrating Woodstock's 25th anniversary called Woodstock Diary, the documentary Startup.com, and Only the Strong Survive. In 2001, Erez joined with \"Steps For the Future,\" an international collaboration of filmmakers working on an HIV/AIDS film campaign project for South Africa, and in 2003 he joined the Africa 10 team to work on a series of films for the 10 year anniversary of South African Independence. Together with his father, he has recently completed the Darien Dilemma film. 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