JCC International Jewish Film Festival - The Performance

Director: Shira Piven
Language:  English
Running Time: 111 minutes
Writers: Shira Piven, Josh Salzberg
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Lara Wolf, and Jeremy Piven from Entourage
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 Stars

Jeremy Piven is an award-winning actor and comedian who takes center stage as a Jewish tap dancer in Nazi Germany in The Performance. Based on a short story by The Crucible playwright Arthur Miller, The Performance centers on an American tap dancer named Harold (Piven) whose troupe is invited to perform in Berlin in 1937. At first, Harold, who is Jewish, pauses at the invitation, but the money will be good – and the entreaty from the charming Nazi officer Flugler (Robert Carlyle) is so strong that Harold risks it all to bring entertainment to the highest levels of the Third Reich.

Jeremy Piven is the producer and his sister Shira Piven (Welcome to Me) directs from a screenplay she co-wrote with Josh Salzberg. Jeremy says it was their mother, Joyce, who first brought Miller’s story to his attention. “I immediately knew that I had to do it,” he said. “It was such a beautiful way to illustrate how insane any type of racism, anti-Semitism, and any type of hatred is. It illustrated it so beautifully and organically.”

Ticket Price:  $18/film, Member Ticket Price: $15/film
Series Price (4 films): $68, Member Series Price: $56

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