Stella: A Life

Stella Goldschlag, a young German Jew, grows up in Berlin during the rule of the Nazi regime. Despite all the repressive measures of the time, she dreams of a career as a jazz singer. After she is forced to go into hiding with her parents in February 1943, her life turns into a culpable tragedy wherein, through a betrayal, she is inevitably caught by the Gestapo. After being tortured and threatened, she is forced to become a “grabber." In order to save herself and her parents from deportation to Auschwitz, Stella begins to systematically betray other Jews by turning them over to authorities. Featuring a "dynamite performance" (Filmuforia) by Paula Beer (Transit, Undine, and Afire), Stella: A Life tells the shocking real life story of Goldschlag and her complicated position as both victim and representative of the great evils ordinary people are capable of when pushed to the edge.