Elie Wiesel: Soul On Fire

A Film by Oren Rudavsky

USA

2024

1hr 27m

English

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"Harrowing and Powerful" Stephen Silver

“Soul On Fire is an important and timely documentary…Director Oren Rudavsky has done a masterful job.” Culturecatch.com

“A terrific, wonderfully crafted documentary…in a time when Holocaust denial and antisemitism is at an all-time high, “Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire,” is a much-needed reminder and inspiration for all of us. This is a true profile in courage.” Atlanta Jewish Times

“Searing and urgent…poignant and timely… Rudavsky eloquently includes archival footage and judiciously applies animated reenactments…they are powerful and expressionistic…that face, those eyes, that voice, and those words make this such a stunning film.” Peter Keough, The Arts Fuse

MORNING JOE on MSNBC

"How the world transformed Elie Wiesel — and how he transformed the world", The Forward

"This New Documentary About Elie Wiesel Comes Right on Time", Kveller

Audience award for best feature film - Spokane JFF 2026

Best Documentary Award - Moscow Jewish Film Festival

Audience award for Best Documentary at Rochester JFF

Recipient of YAD VASHEM- DOC AVIV award for Holocaust related film!

Audience Award for Best Documentary - Pittsburgh JFF

Doc Aviv 2025

New York Jewish Film Festival

Torchbearer Jury prize - Miami Jewish Film Festival

Eighty years after his family’s deportation and the wholesale slaughter of European Jewry, Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire explores the man behind the searing memoir Night. The narration is in his own voice, revealing the known and unknown Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) - his conflicts, memories, and his legacy as one of the most public survivors of the Holocaust. With unique access to personal archives, and using original interviews with his wife Marion and son Elisha, the film has a unique intimacy. It also includes his passion for human rights, whether confronting President Ronald Reagan about visiting a German cemetery, or pleading with President Clinton to take action during the war in Bosnia. With hand-painted animation by Joel Orloff and a score by Osvaldo Golijov, Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire illuminates the survivor, writer, teacher and public figure.

Oren Rudavsky is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and several National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts grants. Rudavsky produced, directed and co-wrote the American Masters documentary Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People which was nominated for a Critics Choice award. His film A Life Apart: Hasidism in America was short-listed for the Academy Awards.

Past Screenings:

Opened September 5th at IFC Center, NYC

Opened September 5th at North Shore Towers Cinema / Queens, NY

Opened September 5th at Cinema Arts Center / Huntington, NY

Opened September 5th at Jacob Burns Film Center / Pleasantville, NY

Opened October 3rd at Laemmle's Royal/ West LA

Opened October 3rd at Town Center 5/ Encino, CA

Opened October 4th and 5th - Barrymore Film Center NJ

Opened Oct 10th - Burns Court Cinema, Sarasota FL

Opened Oct 17th - Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre, Sedona AZ

Opened Oct 31st - Movies Of Delray and Movies Of Lake Worth, Boca Raton, FL

Opened Nov 14th - Tampa Theatre, Tampa, FL