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Ruth Gruber, Alaska, 1941 (Ahead of Time: Reel Inheritance Films)
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Oct 1, 2010 – Oct 3, 2010
Daily (5:45pm)
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$11, $8 Students
“Journalist Ruth Gruber received a PhD at age 20, interviewed Virginia Woolf in the 1930s, witnessed Hitler's rise to power, reported from the Soviet Arctic, served as envoy on a ship of Holocaust refugees, covered the Nuremberg trials, and chronicled the legendary voyage of the SS Exodus — all before the age of 40. Now 99 years old, Ruth Gruber still possesses a powerful intellect and memory, recounting highlights of her early career in a new film by award-winning cinematographer Bob Richman, whose credits include The September Issue, An Inconvenient Truth, and My Architect. Ahead of Time is not only a documentary, it's a touching and inspiring story of a brilliant woman's will to record history, becoming part of it in the process.”
Tanja M. Laden, Flavorpill
I am experiencing that feeling of zest which goes with exploration. I am in the thick of an historic moment. I am in an era in the making...
— Ruth Gruber, 1935
