Stella Dallas - DVD

The original silent version of the classic film about a mother who sacrifices everything for her daughter, later remade in 1937 with Barbara Stanwyck.

A small town cinema in rural Ireland becomes the setting for a dramatic struggle between faith and passion, Rome and Hollywood, and a man and his conscience. STELLA DAYS is the story of Father Daniel Berry (Martin Sheen, the Departed, the West Wing), a story about the conflict between love and duty, hope and faith, and between the excitement of the unknown and the security of the familiar. It encapsulates the dilemma of Ireland in the mid-1950s - on the cusp of the modern but still clinging to the traditions of church and a cultural identity forged in very different times.

Stella Goldschlag, a young German Jew, grows up in Berlin during the rule of the Nazi regime. Despite all the repressive measures of the time, she still dreams of a career as a jazz singer. After she is forced to go into hiding with her parents in February 1943, her life begins to turn into a culpable tragedy wherein she is inevitably caught by the Gestapo. Tortured and threatened with death, Stella makes the crushing decision to save herself and her parents from deportation to Auschwitz by becoming a Inchgrabber,Inch systematically betraying other Jews by turning them over to authorities. Featuring a Inchdynamite performanceInch (Filmuforia) by Paula Beer (Transit, Undine, and Afire), STELLA A LIFE tells the shocking real life story of Goldschlag and the great evils ordinary people are capable of when faced with making a morally impossible choice.