Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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A feature film. 1952, Paris. Nadia, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demonstration, she's rescued by a " Paris Match" photographer. As the friendship becomes a love affair and her slogans are tested by new knowledge and emotion, some of the Red youth want to expel her. When she goes with Stיphane to a seaside photo shoot, her father goes to the police. Stיphane faces charges, so leaving to cover the war in Indochina looks appealing. In a parallel story, Nadia's mother meets again her prewar lover, released from Siberia, who challenges the...

Director : Véra Belmont

Production Year : 1985

Duration : 112

Language : French

The Process

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

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Borat Sagdiyev, a television reporter from Kazakhstan, travels to America in order to make a documentary about this great country. In New York he watches the TV show 'Baywatch' and falls in love with Pamela Anderson, He sets out on a journey to find her. On his travels, Borat meets many Americans and challenges them with his broken English and his ideas brought from the heart of Asia. What happens is that in spite of the great distance between the countries, there are many similarities: racism, hatred of women, they are not limited to the so called 'Third World". The fictitious character of Borat allows...

Director : Larry Charles

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 80

Language : English, Russian

Pillar of Fire, Part 2 - The Dream 1914 - 1929

Produced by the Israeli Television, this documentary series deals with the history of Zionism till the establishment of the State of Israel. First episode of this 4-years complicated production aired in 1981 and created a public stir and controversy regarding the presentation of the Sephardim Jewry contribution to the Zionist movement. “Pillar of Fire” us based on archival films and photos takes from 30 archives, both in Israel and abroad, interviews and illustrations. This short 7-episodes version of the series was produced for foreign markets. Narration by British actor Ian MacCellen.

Director : Nathan Lifshitz

Production Year : 1986

Language : English

Keep and Remember

A documentary Film. the film was based on over 200 hours of intervies and describes some of the efforts by the Jews in the former Pale of Settlment (current Ukraine) to rediscover and memoralize their heritage in the wake of the Holocuast and the fall of the Soviet Union.

Director : Seth Bernstein

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 48

Language : Russian

BRICHA JEWISH ESCAPES FROM POST-WAR LITUNIA

סרט דוקומנטרי המתחקה אחר סיפור בריחתם של ניצולי השואה משטחי ליטא של אחרי מלחמת העולם השנייה, בדרכם לארץ ישראל.

Director : Jonas Öhman

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 21

Language : Russian

Intolerance - Rising Anti-Semitism in the Former Soviet Union

סרט תיעודי קצר על עליית האנטישמיות באוקראינה ורוסיה. הסרט כולל צילומי וידאו מקוריים מאסיפות והפגנות של פעילים נאו-נאצים ולאומניים.

Director : Feodor Lebedev

Duration : 23

Language : Russian, Ukrainian