Dream Up Festival - The Coming Storm: The Legacy of Nazism Endures

The Coming Storm - The Legacy of Nazism Endures
World Premiere

Written and directed by: Stephan Morrow

"I believe that artists must do work that reflects the world around us especially during dangerous times of global crises such as those we are facing and so having been profoundly disturbed by the atrocities of Oct 7. I set about creating material that dealt with that horror. As the material developed it led me back to one of the most disturbing chapters in human history: the rise of the Nazis in 30's Berlin as a reminder of how brutal anti-Semitism can become. It has short episodic scenes which will give a kaleidoscopic impact to the material because it is not a docudrama but a cautionary tale with a fable-like quality. (I did this with another of my pieces 'Darkness After Night :Ukraine which we filmed and which won 'Best Original Screenplay (adapted from another medium) in The Los Angeles Golden State Film Festival. So "The Coming Storm" is a frightening narrative which starts with a Jewish professor brutally ejected from his post at University. After his deportation his prize student, (historically based on Nobel Prize Winner, Werner Eisenberg) - a loyal German - agrees to work on a fission project for his fatherland but when he witnesses the evils of the Nazi regime, including the murder of a female family friend as well as the young woman he is in love with - eventually - at great risk to himself - refuses to continue his work on developing an atom bomb for Germany. (It should be noted that German physicists were two years ahead of Oppenheimer and the U.S.'s efforts at the start of Los Alamos.)."

Running Time: 90 Minutes

Location: Johnson Theater

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