You Only Die Twice

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As a preview of the REEL Israel Documentary Film Festival in March, the Chelsea will screen You Only Die Twice, a suspenseful Jewish detective story filled with deceptions and forgeries that ranges from Tel Aviv to Zagreb to the Austrian Alps. It begins when filmmaker Yair Lev learns that many years earlier an imposter had stolen the identity of his grandfather, Ernst Bechinsky, a Holocaust survivor who had settled in Israel and died in 1969. Lev’s sleuthing determines that his grandfather’s imposter, who died in 1987, had led the Jewish Community in Tyrol, Austria, but that his prominent Nazi in-laws were responsible for the success of his deception. During his search for the truth, Lev encounters a grandson of the fake Bechinsky on a similar quest. Together they reach an unexpectedly satisfying mutual understanding — and viewers get a different perspective on human behavior during the Holocaust