The festival recently unveiled its Cannes Classics programme line-up, special screenings of legendary movies like "Cleopatra," "The Last Emperor," "Vertigo," "Hiroshima, Mon Amour," and more. Thankfully, the Cannes Film Festival has finally come around and recognized “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz” for what it is: an important movie. The festival’s “better safe than sorry” approach to the film basically equated depicting anti-Semitism with being anti-Semitic – a big difference – ignoring the fact that Kravitz’s character is actually the victim of bigotry in the movie, and that the numerous Jewish stereotypes present in the film were clearly intended to be satirical. At the time, Europe was extremely sensitive to such issues in the wake of the killing of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Yet despite all that international acclaim, “Duddy Kravitz” was denied entry into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival because the fest’s organizers deemed the film to be anti-Semitic. Not only was “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz” the first Canadian film to ever be acquired up by Paramount Pictures, but it was also nominated for a Golden Globe and an Oscar, and won the Berlin Film Festival’s prestigious Golden Bear Award. That recognizable cast helped the small Canadian feature make a big splash abroad.
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