{"id":1992800,"date":"2025-09-02T14:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1992800"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:03:04","slug":"etty-hagai-levis-new-series-premiered-at-the-venice-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/etty-hagai-levis-new-series-premiered-at-the-venice-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Etty, Hagai Levi&#8217;s new series, premiered at the Venice Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The series is based on the tragic story but also inspiring story of Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish woman who sought spiritual enlightenment and kept extensive diaries of great literary merit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hagai Levi\u2019s dramatic TV series, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/culture\/article-861998\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Etty,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Etty,<\/a> had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Six episodes of the series are being screened at the film festival. Levi, who created such series as BeTipul (remade around the world as In Therapy and In Treatment), The Affair, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-865131\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Our Boys;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Our Boys<\/a>, and the remake of Ingmar Bergman\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/culture\/hagai-levis-40-year-journey-to-scenes-from-a-marriage-679094\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Scenes from a Marriage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Scenes from a Marriage<\/a>, attended the festive premiere with the stars of the series, Julia Windischbauer and Sebastian Koch, and other cast and crew members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The series is based on the tragic story but also inspiring story of Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish woman who sought spiritual enlightenment and kept extensive diaries of great literary merit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Refusing offers to go into hiding, she worked to help the Jewish community as long as she could and was murdered in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-865190\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Auschwitz;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Auschwitz<\/a> at age 29. Her diaries, published nearly 40 years after her death, drew worldwide acclaim and were published in 18 languages.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">A love story<\/h3>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a director\u2019s statement, Levi said that as a former Orthodox Jew feeling spiritually adrift, her diaries were a revelation for him. \u201cAbove all, this is a love story: the love of a young woman for a man who awakened her soul, and out of that awakening \u2013 a love to life, to God, and to all humankind, in the deepest and highest sense imaginable,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>JULIA WINDISCHBAUER stars in the new series \u2018Etty\u2019 from Hagai Levy. (credit: Anne Wilk)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The series is a French, German, and Dutch co-production from Levi and the European channel ARTE. Ya\u00ebl Fogiel (Les Films du Poisson) is the executive producer, and among the production companies that created it are Komplizen Film (Toni Erdmann), Topkapi Films (Another Round), Quiddity Films (Supernova), and the Israeli global entertainment studio SIPUR (Bad Boy and We Will Dance Again). Emilio Schenker, CEO of SIPUR, accompanied Levi to the festival.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The series is based on the tragic story but also inspiring story of Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish woman who sought spiritual enlightenment and kept extensive diaries of great literary merit. Hagai Levi\u2019s dramatic TV series, Etty, had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Monday. 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