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Berlin - Paris, Die Geschichte der Beate Klarsfeld

A Documentary film. Brunhilde Pomsel always described herself as just being a side-line figure and not at all interested in politics. Aged 105, Pomsel used to work as secretary, stenographer and typist for the Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Pomsel’s life mirrors the major historical ruptures of the 20th century and German life thereafter. The film forces viewers to ask themselves what they would have done and whether they would have sacrificed any possible moral principles in order to advance their own careers.

Director : Christian Krönes, Olaf S. Müller, Roland Schrotthofer, Florian Weigensamer

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 113

Language : English, German

Jugendliche und der Nahostkonflikt

Director : Gesa Dankwerth

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 40

Language : German

The Young Lions

Feature film. The destiny of three soldiers during World War II. Marlon Brando, as the German officer Christian Diestl, approves less and less of the war. The American soldiers are portraied by Motgomri Clift and Dean Martin. Jewish-American Noah Ackerman (Clift ) deals with anti-Semitism at home and in the army while Brodway entertainer Michael Whiteacre (Martin) transforms from playboy to hero, The film was nominated for three Oscars. Based on the novel by Irwin Shaw.

Director : Edward Dmytryk

Production Year : 1958

Duration : 167

Language : English

Gestures of Reconciliation - International Short Film Competition, Disc 1

סדרת סרטים קצרים.

Director : Katsiaryna Kamockaya, Viktor Korzuon‬, אסתי עמרמי, דנה לבנט, Hans Stützer, Daniel Erb, Moonika Siimets, Priit Pääsuke, Jaanis Valk

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 117

Language : Belarusian, English, Estonian, German, Hebrew, Russian

Honorable Mr. Morgenthau

A documentary. The documentary is about the United States of America's immigration policy during the Holocaust. Throughout most of the 1930s and World War II, the United States government deliberately kept the influx of European Jews to America well below America’s official immigration quota for that part of the world. This policy, rooted in a variety of political concerns, as well as frequently transparent anti-Semitism left millions with no haven from the Nazi terror, and emboldened Hitler to transition from a policy of Jewish emigration to extermination.

Director : Hilan Warshaw

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 95

Language : English

המפקד

A feature film. The film tell the real story of Salvatore Todaro. At the start of WWII, Salvatore Todaro commands the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini. One dark night in October 1940, while navigating in the Atlantic, he comes upon an armed merchant ship. He shoots his cannons at the ship and sinks it. At that moment, the Commander makes a decision that was destined to go down in history: he saves the 26 shipwrecked Belgians who otherwise would have drowned in the middle of the ocean.

Director : Edoardo De Angelis

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 120

Language : French, Italian

ארצות הברית והשואה - פרק 2 -

A documentary television series. As World War II begins, Americans are united in their disapproval of Nazi brutality but divided on whether to act. Some individuals and organizations work tirelessly to help refugees escape. Meanwhile, Charles Lindbergh and isolationists battle with Roosevelt to try to keep America out of the war. Germany invades the Soviet Union and secretly begins the mass murder of European Jews.

Director : Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 138

Language : English

The U.S. and the Holocaust- Episode 1 - The Golden Door (Beginnigs 1938)

A documentary television series. After decades of maintaining open borders, a xenophobic backlash prompts Congress to pass its ﬁrst laws restricting immigration. Meanwhile, in Germany, Hitler and the Nazis begin their persecution of Jewish people, causing many to try to ﬂee to neighboring countries or America. Franklin Roosevelt and other world leaders are concerned by the growing refugee crisis but fail to coordinate a response.

Director : Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 129

Language : English

הסרט האחרון של דונקל

סרט תיעודי. סיפורו המרתק של פרד דונקל גרמני, אשר כחייל בצבא הגרמני במלחמת העולם הראשונה שירת בפלשתינה- א"י, צלם, מפיק, ואיש עסקים שנישא ליהודיה וברח בשנות ה-30 מגרמניה הנאצית לפלשתינה –א"י, יחד עם אשתו וביתה היהודיות. דונקל, שהיה חבר במפלגה הנאצית, הוכרז ע"י השלטונות כעריק. בארץ הפך לצלם מגוייס לתעמולה הציונית וכן כספק שירותי צילום למוסדות אחרים, בריטיים או יהודים, עסקים או יחידים. סרטיו של דונקל נחשפים באקראי עקב חלום מיסטי של ביתו, המחליטה בגיל 50 להתחקות אחר שורשי אביה. היא לא הכירה אותו מאחר ונפטר כשהיתה בת 3. ונקל מלווה בצילומיו, את תקופת ההתיישבות בא"י, משנות ה-30 ועד לקום המדינה. לאחר...

Director : טלי אוחיון

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 51

Language : English, German, Hebrew

Colette - The French resistance fighter confronting fascism

A short documentary. At the age of 90, Colette Marin Catherine confronts her past by visiting the German concentration camp Mittelbau Dora where her brother was killed. As a young girl, she fought Hitler's Nazis as a member of the French Resistance. For 74 years, she has refused to step foot in Germany, but that changed. Prepared to reopen old wounds and revisit the terrors of that time, Marin Catherine offers lessons for us all. The film has won the Academy Award in the category of best documentary short, 2021.

Director : Anthony Giacchino

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 25

Language : French

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