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The trial of a Lithuanian Collaborater, the priest Liongionas Jankauskas is the ceter of this documentary film.The witnesses, the courtroom. Extracts from the diary of a Jewess from Kovno. Artistic shots of dripping ice and ocean. The opening of a hand written book, a diary, photographs of young girl. Still of a New York Times article that stated: Moscow, March 8, The trial in abstenia of a Brooklyn resident accused of War Crimes began last week in Soviet Lithuania. Rev Liongionas Jankauskas, a Roman Catholic priest charged with having killed 1,200 people. The priest Jankauskas, personally shot people in the...

Production Year : 1964

Duration : 10

Language : Russian

Betrayal is Their Craftsmanship

War criminals trials in Ukraine

Director : G. Shklyarevsky

Production Year : 1985

Duration : 50

Language : Ukrainian

משפט קייב

A documentary. The Kiev Trial, also known as the ‘Kiev Nuremberg’, took place in January of 1946 in the Soviet Union, and was one of the first post-war trials convicting German Nazis and their collaborators. 15 criminals, guilty of atrocities, which were later identified by the Nuremberg trials as “crimes against humanity”, faced justice in case No.1679 “On the atrocities committed by fascist invaders on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.” Using archive footage the movie shows key moments of the proceedings, including statements of the defendants and testimonies of the witnesses, survivors of Auschwitz and...

Director : Sergei Loznitsa

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 106

Language : German, Russian, Ukrainian