Chaos Dragon and the Light

Name: Chaos Dragon and the Light
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2023-12-13
Duration: 1 h
Rating: 9.8

2023
1h

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9.8/10

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The documentary's themes of the trauma of war, migration and the refugee experience, are powerfully resonant today, the underlining theme of the role of art in healing resonates throughout t... Read allThe documentary's themes of the trauma of war, migration and the refugee experience, are powerfully resonant today, the underlining theme of the role of art in healing resonates throughout the film.. This is the story of Marika Henriques who, as a young Jewish girl, was hidden fr... Read allThe documentary's themes of the trauma of war, migration and the refugee experience, are powerfully resonant today, the underlining theme of the role of art in healing resonates throughout the film.. This is the story of Marika Henriques who, as a young Jewish girl, was hidden from the Nazis in a Budapest cellar. She then escaped Communist Hungary after the 1956 Upris... Read all

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- Sal Anderson

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- Sal Anderson

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8/10

Innate healing

This is a moving and fascinating film, beautifully made.

From my particular perspective, that of doctor and psychotherapist, I receive it primarily as a chronicle, through words and images, of the way our animal life systems have deep capacities for healing wounds the individual has suffered.

The subject of the film is a Jewish woman, now elderly, who was a young child when the Nazis invaded Budapest. She became a 'hidden child' in a world beset by traumas. Further geopolitical traumas were to follow, when Soviet forces entered Hungary. Facing and surviving many dangers she made her way to England, and made a new life there. But it was later in her life, following an operation, that her psyche became very active and brought about deep healing, associated with her return into her Jewish identity and community.