Continuation of the film “Fritz the Cat” (1972) – an adult animation. Fritz the Cat (voice of the actor Skip Hinnant), now married to a cat who annoys him and father to a spoilt offspring, sits on the sofa smoking a joint and imagines how his life would be if things had worked out differently. Among other things, he imagines himself as a soldier in Nazi Germany during the Second World War. In the position of aide to Hitler, he convinces Hitler that his desire to rule the world is just a way of trying to get attention for him. The first animated film to be included in the official Cannes Festival competition.
Henry Spira (June 19, 1927 – September 12, 1998) was a prominent animal rights activist, and co-founder of the movement in the United States to stop the use of animals in experiments. Though born in Antwerp, Belgium, he and his family, who were Jews, moved to America in 1940 (during the Second World War) to escape Nazism.
German Newsreel no. 713 (3 May, 1944):
District Party Director Wagner's funeral in Munich, including procession. General Hube's funeral in Berlin; Goering and Hitler are present. In Spain, General Franco reviews a parade honoring fifth anniversary of the liberation of Barcelona. In Brussels, the SS assault brigade Wallonia returns home; Leon Degrelle presents decorations in the presence of Sepp Dietrich. Final exams for Adolf Hitler School students at a " Castle of the Knightly Order", where Robert Ley and Baldur von Schirach are present; students' boxing and gymnastic skills are displayed. In Munich,...
Drama, at the center of which is a bittersweet story about WWII and its influences told from the point of view of two children in occupied France; Paulette a girl from Paris who loses her parents in an aerial attack, and Michel son of a family of farmers that takes her into his parents' home until a permanent solution can be found for her. The two who become close friends decide to imitate the burial ceremonies of the adults around them and build a cemetery for pets. Winner of the Oscar Award in the category of best foreign film 1952.
German Newsreels no. 661 (5 May, 1943):
At the conference of the Reich Labor Chamber in the Reich Chancellery, Director of Organization, Robert Ley, stresses the role of the workplace in national victory. Awards are given to firms, managers, and workers. On the western front: Reich Labor Service men at work and at leisure; a bicycle unit; after a British bomber formation is sighted, German flack and fighters are employed and one British plane is downed. At the front to the southeast of Leningrad: A thaw has turned land in the Volkhov area into lakes and rivers, supplies transported on rubber boats,...
The "Panorama" shows in the way of the renown "Wochenschau" scenes from the war and everyday life in wartime Germany between 1944 and 1945. All the footage of "Panorama" is in color and partly of very good quality.
סרט קצר, משולב אנימציה. הסרט מבוסס על ספרה של בת שבע דגן, שנכתב לקוראים הצעירים, ומספר על ימי השואה דרך עיניו של ילד בן חמש (מיכאש).המסרב להיפרד מכלבתו האהובה צ'יקה. בגטו בפולין מצווים הנאצים על היהודים למסור את כלביהם בשל האיסור בחוקי נירנברג.להחזיק בביתם חיות מחמד, אך מיכאש, שקשור מאוד לכלבתו, מסרב למסור אותה. הוריו מחפשים פתרון שיאפשר להם לשמור על צ‘יקה,והילד שותף פעיל בהחלטות. הסרט מציג ברגישות ובחכמה סיטואציה שאינה מוכרת לילדים בימינו – משפחה במצוקה בתקופת המלחמה.
A short animated film by the Holon Institute of Technology and Yad Vashem as part of the "From Crisis to Revival" project. The film tells about Mishka Kornblit (Silberstein), who as a young boy during the war, managed to survive three years alone in the woods
