The Precious Legacy

Prague - the home of Mahler, Freud, and Kafka - used to be known as the "Paris of the East" and the "Jerusalem of the North." But during World War II Prague had a darker side. It was here that the Nazis sought to create a "museum of an extinct race." Today the museum in Prague holds the greatest collection of Judaica in the world. The tragic yet transcendent legacy of the Czech and Slovak Jews is revealed in this moving documentary.

David Weissman is a multi-award winning independent filmmaker whose short films have been broadcast domestically and internationally, and have been featured at numerous film festivals, including Berlin (COMPLAINTS, 1992; SONG FROM AN ANGEL 1989), Sundance (COMPLAINTS , 1992), and Telluride (SONG FROM AN ANGEL 1988). David was the first recipient in 1990 of the prestigious Sundance Institute/Mark Silverman Fellowship for New Producers, and was a 1992 recipient of the San Francisco Foundation's James T. Phelan Art Awards in Film. Currently, David Weissman is producer/co-director of THE COCKETTES, a feature length documentary about the legendary San Francisco theatrical troupe of hippies and drag queens, 1969-1972. http://www.cockettes.com/