Hartford Premiere
AHEAD OF TIME: THE EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY OF RUTH GRUBER

USA, 2009 73 minutes, English and Hebrew with English subtitles
Director: Bob Richman
Producer: Zeva Oelbaum

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This is the exquisitely crafted portrait of the fearless and feisty 100-year-old reporter, photographer, memoirist and humanitarian Ruth Gruber, who became the world's youngest PhD at age 20. A feminist before the movement began, she became a New York Herald Tribune foreign correspondent at 24, and was the first reporter to enter the Soviet Artic. For seven decades she didn't just report the news...she made it. Gruber, who has written 19 books and received numerous awards, secretly escorted Holocaust refugees to America, was an eyewitness to the Haganah ship Exodus, covered the Nuremberg trials and had access to world leaders including Eleanor Roosevelt and David Ben-Gurion.

2010 Winner, Best Documentary, Miami, Denver and Palm Beach Jewish Film Festivals, Berkshire International Film Festival.

Screening with THE TENTH MAN