3-10 Sep ‘23
 
Rus

Hope Dies Last (2017)

Hope Dies Last
12+
  • Country:

    United Kingdom

  • Duration:

    7 min

  • Program:

    Competition, 5th MJFF

  • Type:

    Narrative, Short

  • Genre:

    drama

  • Director:

    Ben Price

  • Producer:

    Tim Royle, Ben Price

  • Cast:

    Tarek Slater, Andrew Grosse

About film

A sickly scrawny man in a striped uniform takes a shaving brush and foam, and with a sharp blade, he shaves the back of the head of Rudolf Höss, the commandant of the Auschwitz camp himself. They will never speak with one another, and Joseph (we only learn his name during the credits) will never harm Höss, will not stop the flood of horrible murders with yet another murder. This short sketch about life of a death camp makes us feel pain and grief of millions of people who had passed beyond the walls of the shaving room during the imprisonment of Joseph, the man who outlived his torturer.

Rewards and nominations

  • Bermuda International Film Festival 2018 - Official Selection
  • HollyShorts Film Festival 2017 - Best Short film, Best International Short
  • Manhattan Short Film Festival 2017 - Official Selection

Director

Ben Price
Ben Price began his career in theatre as an actor and director, running his own theatre company in the North East of England. On moving to London, Ben studied acting at the Drama Centre and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. For the past twenty years his career has been predominantly in film and television, where he has played leading roles in a number of major long-running UK dramas. His first short "I'M SORRY TO TELL YOU" opened at New York Independent Film Festival 2015, was shown at 15 International film festivals and long listed at BAFTA. His second film "TAUBMAN" has just been shown at the Oscar qualifying Athens Film Festival, opened the Manchester film festival and was shown as part of a special section at the Jewish Film Festival.

Trailer

Director

Ben Price
Ben Price began his career in theatre as an actor and director, running his own theatre company in the North East of England. On moving to London, Ben studied acting at the Drama Centre and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. For the past twenty years his career has been predominantly in film and television, where he has played leading roles in a number of major long-running UK dramas. His first short "I'M SORRY TO TELL YOU" opened at New York Independent Film Festival 2015, was shown at 15 International film festivals and long listed at BAFTA. His second film "TAUBMAN" has just been shown at the Oscar qualifying Athens Film Festival, opened the Manchester film festival and was shown as part of a special section at the Jewish Film Festival.