TJFF Chai Tea and Movie for Jan 2011 (ARMY OF CRIME)

CHAI TEA + A MOVIE

Sunday January 23, 2011 SilverCity Richmond Hill, 8725 Yonge Street (Yonge and Hwy 7)
Tea – 4:00pm | Film – 5:00pm

Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling, 416-599- 8433 Or online through the TJFF website, http://www.tjff.com

Tickets are also available at the door (subject to availability) $15

(Toronto) TJFF’s January Chai Tea & A Movie, Army of Crime, is a taut, revealing thriller about the early days of the French Resistance, a time when so many of the movement’s leaders and foot soldiers were often foreigners — Poles, Jews, Armenians, Spaniards, Italians — who had to fear French collaborators as well as the Germans.

Armenian poet, Missak Manouchian (with a stand-out performance by Simon Abkarian) and his French wife Mélinée (Virginie Ledoyen) lead a ragtag assortment of volunteers against the German occupiers and their French allies.

Varying in their actual homelands and in their reasons for joining the struggle, the one thing that unites them is the understanding that the Nazis oppression will only increase unless it is squarely confronted. To that end, they hatch a plot to assassinate a general, and show that resistance is indeed possible, but their activity attracts the attention of the German high command, which decides to teach the French population a different kind of lesson.

Warning:  violence and nudity

ABOUT THE TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

The Toronto Jewish Film Festival presents the best feature films, documentaries and shorts from around the world, on themes of Jewish culture and identity.  The Festival is dedicated to using film for its contemporary popular value and accessibility, in order to reflect the diversity of the Jewish experience internationally.  The TJFF provides an opportunity to heighten awareness of Jewish and cultural diversity around the world, to audiences of all cultural backgrounds, and to present films in their original languages with subtitles, in an effort to break down racial, cultural and religious barriers and stereotypes.

Capsule review of movie will be posted week before the screening on this site!