Guri Stark
Without Art & Music Life Would Be A Serious Mistake
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Adam Kaminsky was busy painting one of his dreary landscapes from the
views he saw outside his studio window, when a knock on the door
interrupted him. Lonely and bitter Adam caged himself in his house on the
top of a hill in Rosh Pina, disconnected from society. No-one in Rosh Pina
has spoken to the crazy old man for over twenty years. That’s why he was
puzzled by the knocking. Who dares interrupting his desolate life routine?
At the door stood Daniel, a lively and energetic seventeen year old who
claimed to be his grandson. The two lives intersected and nothing remained
the same. As the two men became closer, Daniel’s contagious energy
affected the old man in surprising ways. It opened him to re-engaging with
life and acquiring a new wind that would propel him forward and drive him
to dig deep into his past.
Through thoughtful conversations between the two, the story unfolds and
we discover Adam’s life story and the background to his sourness. Born to
an orthodox Jewish family in Poland, Adam lost his first love and his entire
family to the tribulations of World War II. Nevertheless, he was given a
second chance from an adoptive family and married his second love Halina.
Hoping for a better future they immigrated to Israel with their new born
daughter Lydia where they built a house in Rosh Pina. But Adam’s fortune
was short lived, and soon he experienced another big loss. This time the loss
of his two loved ones: his wife to illness and his daughter to Sam, a visiting
American with whom she escaped to America and disconnected from him.
Delicately told through personal dialogues, this intimate story portrays the
intersection of three generations and three different life perspectives: a
Holocaust survivor, post-war generation, and a third generation born into a
free world. While discussing life values, we discover their differences and
similarities and follow them as they influence each other, reconnect and find
a third wind together.
Third Wind
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