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THE LADY IN NUMBER 6

By Malcolm CLARKE

BUNBURY FILMS INC. - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline / PROD

Documentary - Completed 2014

At 109 years old, Alice Herz Sommer still practiced the piano for two and a half hours each day.

She remained fiercely independent and attributed her long life, less to "good genes" than to "good music".

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Documentary, Biography
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH-CANADA
- Duration
- 38 mn
- Director(s)
- Malcolm CLARKE
- Writer(s)
- Carl FREED, Malcolm CLARK
- Producer(s)
- Nick REED, Christopher BRANCH, Malcolm CLARK
- Synopsis
- A relentlessly positive and optimistic outlook plus her deeply held belief in the essential goodness of her fellow man kept Alice Herz Sommer alive for over a century. Not only was she the oldest living person in London, England, but she was the oldest survivor of Hitler's Holocaust.
  
  It has often been said that fear and hatred eat the soul – but conversely might it also be argued that love – of life, of those around us – and in Alice's case – of music, can nourish the soul and liberate the spirit? To the end day Alice never tired of saying; "Music saved my life and Music saves me still" (Alice Herz Sommer November 26, 1903 – February 23, 2014).