By Marijan David Vajda “Jewish immigrants came from the shtetls and ghettos out to Hollywood … in this magical place that had no relationship to any reality they had ever seen before in their lives, or that anyone else ever saw, they decided to create their idea of eastern aristocracy …
the opening ceremony of the first Jewish Film Festival in Belgrade, the festival director, Marjan David Vajda, presented the selection of films opening the festival – first, “The Ninth Circuit”, shot in 1960, by Slovenian director Frace Stiglitz. “The Ninth Circuit” is one of only four Yugoslav films nominated for …
