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Siła Bezsilnych (Power of the Powerless) series tells the story of the Polish resistance movement against the Communist government during World War II. This chapter is dedicated to Joseph Kuras, nicknamed "Fire", who was the commander of the partisan organization "Lightning". The organization acted to release anti-communist underground prisoners from the "Saint Michala" prison in the center of Krakow near military camps and secret police headquarters with not a single shot fired. The last living witness Zbigniew Plobodah describes the action. The history of "Fire" reflects the history of post-war Poland. The...

Director : Tadeusz Pawlicki

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 49

Language : Polish

The Stalking of the Red Poster

In mid-November 1943, the French Vichy police arrested 23 Resistance members of the "Manouchian Group", called after its commander, Missak Manouchian. 11 of them were Jews. On 21.2.1944, after 3 months of tortures, the 23 were tried and executed. In the spring of 1944, the Vichy and German authorities printed an estimated 15,000 copies of a propaganda poster called Affiche Rouge ("Red Poster") which claimed that the resistance was headed by foreigners, Jews, unemployed people and criminals who conspirated against French life and the sovereignty of France. The campaign, however, seemd to have had the opposite...

Director : Jorge Amat

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 124

Language : French

White Rose

A small group of students at the University of Munich begins to question the sanity of Germany's Nazi government towards the end of the Second World War. They form a resistance cell called "The White Rose", named after a newsletter secretly distributed to other students. The group begins to gain support, while the Gestapo ruthlessly pursues the members of "The White Rose", whose leaders are ultimately tried for treason and executed.

Director : Michael Verhoeven

Production Year : 1982

Duration : 121

Language : German

A Day in October

During the month of October 1943, the Danish resistance movement and just plain ordinary citizens joined in staging a mass exodus by fishing boats to neutral Sweden of their Jewish countrymen, practically on the eve of the Nazi's planned round-up and delivery to concentration camps of all Jews. Story is told from the point of view of one Jewish family. English dialogue and U.S. actors top-cast

Director : Kenneth Madsen

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 99

Language : Danish, English

Defiance

Three Jewish brothers (Craig, Schreiber and Bell) escape from Nazi-occupied Poland into the Belarussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and others in danger.

Director : Edward Zwick

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 137

Language : English

For Your and Our Freedom

סרט על מקומם של חיילים יהודים פולין במלחמות על עצמאותה של פולין.

Director : Paweł Woldan

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 40

Language : Polish

Landscapes of Resistance

A documentary biograghic movie. Sonja Vujanovic was one of the first women who joined the partisan resistance movement in Yugoslavia. She was inspired by the revolutionary books she received from a classmate in high school, she joined the communist and antifascist organization in the late 1930s and in 1941 became a partisan fighter in German-occupied Serbia. She was captured, tortured and after several other prisons and concentration camps taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau. There she became a member of the resistance and a leader of its combat unit. Landscapes of her revolutionary life as they exist today , the...

Director : Marta Popivoda

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 95

Language : Serbian-Croatian

The Night of Fools

דוקו –דרמה. סיפורה של מחרת יהודית בת 400 איש שבלילה אחד בנובמבר 1942 הצליחה לכבוש את העיר אלג'יר, בירת אלג'יריה, מידי צבא וישי הפרו נאצי, לעצור בבתיהם את ראשי ממשל וישי הפשיסטיים, ולמסור את מפתחות העיר אלג'יר לכוחות בעלות הברית שנחתו למחרת בבוקר לחופי העיר. סיפור מדהים שלא סופר עד כה, שמשמשים בו בערבוביה תעוזה, חוצפה, יצירתיות, עורמה, שלומיאליות ואמונה.

Director : Rami Kimchi

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 56

Paradise

Follows three people whose paths cross during a terrible time of war: Olga, a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French Resistance; Jules, a French collaborator; and Helmut, a high-ranking German SS officer.

Director : Andrey Konchalovskiy

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 130

Language : French, Russian

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2000 - Nata Osmo Gattegno

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2000. Torchlighter Nata Osmo Gattegno. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

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