ORDER FROM CHAOS
Film by Ana Isabel Ordonez
with the granted permission of Auschwitz Birkenau Museum in Auschwitz, Poland
Narrated by Herb Robertson
Starring : Loter Martin, Yehuda Cheres
Music by
Herb robertson
David Chevan
the Afro Semitic Experience feat. Frank London
Zlatko Kaucic
Meir Israel
Sponsored by
Augusta Savage Gallery University of Massachusetts
Produced by
Ruby Flower Prdoductions
Summary :
The very root of Albert Ketzenger’s struggle grows in soil shared by Jews, Holocaust survivors, and all humans: The need to find peace in suffering, closure for the soul’s wounds, and order from chaos. This most human requirement calls to all people, particularly in life’s twilight years, but to none more than the survivors of war and genocide....
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ORDER FROM CHAOS
Film by Ana Isabel Ordonez
with the granted permission of Auschwitz Birkenau Museum in Auschwitz, Poland
Narrated by Herb Robertson
Starring : Loter Martin, Yehuda Cheres
Music by
Herb robertson
David Chevan
the Afro Semitic Experience feat. Frank London
Zlatko Kaucic
Meir Israel
Sponsored by
Augusta Savage Gallery University of Massachusetts
Produced by
Ruby Flower Prdoductions
Summary :
The very root of Albert Ketzenger’s struggle grows in soil shared by Jews, Holocaust survivors, and all humans: The need to find peace in suffering, closure for the soul’s wounds, and order from chaos. This most human requirement calls to all people, particularly in life’s twilight years, but to none more than the survivors of war and genocide.
In the global chaos of World War II, with communities scattered and families wrenched apart, clearly far more than cities were destroyed by bombs and ideology. When the very being of an entire people was invalidated and their worth as humans called into question, the resulting affliction burdened people all over the world. The need to heal and find comfort and reconciliation also has been experienced by all peoples.
Order From Chaos is a present day drama-documentary chronicling one man’s drive to overcome his pain and make peace with his suffering. While this film is rooted in history, it is not a historical film. The documentary follows World War II survivor Albert Ketzenger and his journey back through the chaos of war and imprisonment, love and loss, and the search for resolution. As Albert crosses continents to rediscover his life’s love and roots, we experience a story that can unite the experiences of Shoah survivors and all people.
What draws viewers into Albert’s story, what makes it inspirational, what makes people identify, or want to identify, with the character? In this case it is the sheer mass of courage, focused determination, and, you would have to believe, grit that Albert demonstrated not once, but thrice: First in joining the resistance, fighting Franco’s regime, and escaping repeated capture; second in retuning to Europe and revisiting the places where his suffering had been most intense in order to nurture a sense of closure and an ability to move on; and lastly in taking the healing he found within himself and sharing it with his family to generate love, closeness, and understanding before his lifetime ended.
The heroism required for Albert to survive war and imprisonment is far greater than many of us will know. That he escaped the labor camp is larger than life; that he then evaded the Nazis for years, traveled the globe searching for his love, changed identity and took on new occupations repeatedly, and finally succeeded, makes him a sort of modern archetype. When we hear of Albert’s journeys and challenges, we will wonder, Is that seed of courage inside of me also? If life demanded, could I rise up and go to the same extremes? Would I do this for nation or for love?
Viewers of Order From Chaos witness in Albert’s deeds a heroism that seems not to exist today, in the twilight years of what Tom Brokaw called the Greatest Generation. Right or wrong, pro or con, this generation of fighters and survivors has been held up as the deities of our recent history. We have admired them and been inspired by them, and their successes can be felt by all people. Albert rose to great heights in external life; his make it impossible to not feel direct empathy for the losses suffered among individuals, whether the viewer is Jew or gentile.
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