St. Louis Jewish Film Festival - Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire

From USA * In English

Director: Oren Rudavsky

Documentary: 87 minutes

“Sometimes I’m afraid the tale might be forgotten. Sometimes I’m afraid it is forgotten already.”— Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize winning author of Night

Eighty years after his liberation from Buchenwald, Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire seeks to understand the man behind one of the most searing and widely read memoirs of the Holocaust.

Told largely through Wiesel’s own words and unmistakable voice, the film penetrates the heart of both the known and lesser-known Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) — his passions, his doubts, his moral conflicts, and his lifelong insistence on bearing witness. Drawing on rare archival materials, original interviews, and striking hand-painted animation, the film illuminates Wiesel’s journey as a survivor, writer, teacher, and public conscience.

More than a biography, Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire challenges each of us to consider what it truly means to bear witness — and whether we, too, would have the courage to endure, to speak, and to act in the face of injustice.

Q and A to follow with Washington University Professor of German and Jewish Studies, Dr. Erin McGlothlin.