Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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In 1952 the trial of 13 members of the anti-fascist committe of the Soviet Union was conducted. All of thom known scientists, all Jews, and all innocent. This did not interest Stalin. He put the group through absurd torments, that its end was known.

Director : Alexander Zeldovich

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 104

Language : Russian

Raoul Wallenberg – Prisoner in the Soviet Union

The historian Hans Villius began working with TV-producer Olle Häger at the Sveriges Television (SVT); their very productive collaboration spanned some two decades. During the 1980s and 1990s Häger and Villius produced several popular documentaries, among them Raoul Wallenberg - fånge i Sovjet (Raoul Wallenberg – Prisoner in the Soviet Union), which explores the Swedish diplomat's tragic fate after being abducted by the Soviets immediately following the siege of Budapest.

Director : Olle Häger, Hans Villius

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 55

The Memory of Raoul Wallenberg

Using archival footage and documents, this educational film puts Raoul Wallenberg's story in the larger context of the Holocaust in Europe and especially Hungary. Narrated mainly by the historian László Karsai, a renowned Hungarian Holocaust expert, the film covers a variety of topics including the Anti-Jewish Legislation, the ghettoization and deportation of the Jews, and the rise of the Arrow Cross Party, as well as the interventions of Wallenberg in Budapest and his tragic fate after the Soviets arrested him on January 17, 1945.

Director : András Szitányi

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 30

Language : Hungarian

The Short Life of Anne Frank

Documentary film about the life of the Soviet cartoonist Boris Efimov. Hitler gave a special order to kill him, Stalin killed his brother and kept him guessing about his own fate. This man is a prominent Soviet cartoonist and propaganda, legendary for his political caricatures, which helped to stoke morale among Russian troops during World War II, and who was targeting American capitalism during the Cold War era. He produced more than 70 000 drawings during 108 years of his life.

Director : Semyon Pinkhasov

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 55

Language : English, Russian

The Case of Raoul Wallenberg – Saviour and Victim

This documentary tells the story of Raoul Wallenberg, who traveled to Budapest in 1944 to rescue as many Jews as possible. In less then six months he managed to save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazi and Arrow Cross death machinery. He was arrested and deported by the Soviets on January 17, 1945, after which he disappeared. The film also explores Wallenberg's youth and his complicated relation with his larger family, and leads the viewer into the KGB's prisons and archives. Eye-witnesses, family members and well informed people deliberate on the possible reasons of his mysterious disappearance.

Director : Klaus Dexel

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 88

Language : German

The Mission of Raoul Wallenberg

This Soviet documentary attempts at clarifying the story of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg who, while he was stationed in Nazi-occupied Hungary late in 1944, arranged for almost 100,000 Jews to find safety. When the Soviet army liberated Hungary, Wallenberg was arrested and taken away. The details of what happened to him after that are shrouded in mystery, though he is generally believed to have perished in a Soviet prison in 1947. The film explores many mysteries surrounding his arrest and disappearance, including claims that Leonid Brezhnev may have been involved in it, but it provides few answers.

Director : Alexander Rodnyansky

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 70

Language : English, German, Russian, Swedish

Targeted for Elimination

סרט ציעודי קצר על יהודי סנט פטרסבורג בתקופת המצור הגדול בלנינגרד שנמשך מ-8 בספטמבר 1941 ועד 27 בינואר 1944.

Director : Alexander Slobodskoy

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 17

Language : Russian

Leningrad - Secrets of Blocaded City

סרט תיעודי על המצור על לנינגרד (כיום סנקט פטרבורג) שבמשך מלחמת העולם השנייה הביא למותם של 750,000 איש, שיעור האבדות האזרחיות הכבד ביותר בעיר כלשהי בהיסטוריה המודרנית ואולי בכלל. המצור נמשך מה-8 בספטמבר 1941 ועד 27 בינואר 1944 (במשך 872 יום). במהלך המצור בן 900 הימים היה רעב כבד בלנינגרד שהוביל למותם של למעלה מחצי מיליון בני אדם. מוות המוני זה לא היה תוצאת לוואי של המצור אלא אחת אחת ממטרותיו המפורשות, כפי שנוסחו בהוראותיו של היטלר ובפקודות מפקדי הוורמאכט.

Director : Yuri Zanin

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 45

Language : Russian

Teheran 43 aka Assassination Attempt

The drama is about an assassination attempt on Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Teheran Conference 1943. Teheran 43 starts in 1980 in Paris. The memories of hero Andrei take the story back to 1943. The Germans planned to assassinate the three men. 37 years later, the German agent Max lives with Françoise, a young Parisian woman, who hides him. But another Nazi, Scherner, is hunting down Max who failed to carry out the planned assassinations. Max trusts Françoise, but he doesn't know that she works for Scherner. Another plot in the movie is the romance between Andrei and...

Director : Alexander Alov, Vladimir Naumov

Production Year : 1981

Duration : 192

Language : French, Russian