MIDWEST PREMIERE!

Wednesday | November 13 | 6:30 pm Double Feature with Kosher Beach, 8:00 pm
Q&A with Israeli fashion historian Keren Ben-Horin, on whose MA thesis the film is based.

Part of our 8th Annual Evening of Films By & About Women. Hosted by Hadassah.

Screening at the ArcLight Cinemas in The Glen, Glenview.

Documentary. 55 min.
In Hebrew, English, and Hungarian with Hebrew and English subtitles.

Synopsis:
Mrs. G tells the story of Lea Gottlieb, the legendary designer, founder, and owner of the Gottex swimwear empire. Gottlieb was a woman full of contradictions, but she knew how to recover from periods of crisis. A Hungarian-born survivor of the Holocaust, she went on to establish a manufacturing facility in Israel and achieve phenomenal global success with her groundbreaking brand. This documentary follows Mrs. G’s incredible creativity and dominating personality, her complex relationships with her two daughters, and her unbridled passion, for which she paid a tragic price.

Director:  Dalit Kimor

“The first Israeli documentary about the country’s fashion industry, which was put on the global map by Gottlieb’s outrageous bathing suit designs and her use of wonderfully different fabrics, cuts and colors.”  —Times of Israel

Mrs. G