Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Episode 10 in director’s Péter Forgács series "Private Hungary" which is based on a home footage that document the daily life of the Hungarians, before, during and after WWII. This experimental film is based on home movies, documenting the family life of Hungarian Jews from 1937 until the German occupation in 1944. This is a joint effort of the film director Péter Forgács and György Pető, an amateur photographer whose dozens of reels of film were made by Forgacs into a cinematic testimony about Hungary during the war and the German occupation.

results.listIds.director : Peter Forgacs

results.listIds.year : 1996

results.listIds.duration : 71 75

results.listIds.lang : English, Hungarian

קו החיים - מחתרת תנועות הנוער בהונגריה

Documentary film about a group of Israeli survivors, natives of Hungary, who were members of the resistance underground and rescue organizations visiting Budapest and telling about their lives during the Nazi occupation. Includes archival films that document Budapest during the war and mainly during the German occupation.

results.listIds.director : Galia Shiloah Everes

results.listIds.year : 1995

results.listIds.duration : 63

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Giorgio Perlasca - The Spanish Attaché

Documentary about the Italian Righteous Giorgio Perlasca. Including interview with Perlasca, testimonies by his survivors, and archive footage.

results.listIds.director : Gadi Kastel

results.listIds.year : 1990

results.listIds.duration : 46

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Hungarian

The Kolozsvár Puzzle

באמצעות עדויות ראייה, תצלומים וסרטי ארכיון, סרט תעודי זה מתאר את שלטון הורטי בזמן מלה"ע ה- 2, פשיזם ואנטישמיות בהונגריה. משתתפים: יהודית פרנץ (Judit Ferencz) יהודית מורסן (Judit Muresan) ג'וליה שילאגאי (Julia Szilagyi) לזלו נוסבאום (Laszlo Nussbaum)

results.listIds.director : András Sipos

results.listIds.year : 2007

results.listIds.duration : 46

results.listIds.lang : Hungarian

Man Alive: Missing Hero Wallenberg

Produced for BBC TV, this documentary film reports on the mystery surrounding the fate of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazi gas chambers and fell into the hands of the Russians at the end of the war.

results.listIds.director : John Bierman

results.listIds.year : 1980

results.listIds.duration : 51

results.listIds.lang : English

Two Men

In this TV drama, a Toronto Hungarian immigrant believes that a respectful businessman killed his family at Auschwitz during WWII.

results.listIds.director : Gordon Pinsent

results.listIds.year : 1988

results.listIds.duration : 116

results.listIds.lang : English

Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man

A two-parts TV drama that tells the story of Italian Righteous Gentile Giorgio Perlasca who was, since 1944, an emissary for Spain and operated under the protection of the Spanish in the city. On November 1944, with the approach of the front, he was instructed by his government to leave Budapest, but under the pretense of authorization from the Spanish Government, Perlasca conducted negotiations with the fascist and pro-Nazi “Arrow-Cross” Government. He promised favors from the Spanish Government in exchange for honoring the rights of Spaniards in Hungary, and devised protection for thousands of persecuted Jews....

results.listIds.director : Alberto Negrin

results.listIds.year : 2002

results.listIds.duration : 195

results.listIds.lang : Italian

Sunshine

Hungarian director István Szabó’s period piece: the saga of three generations of the Hungarian-Jewish Sonnenschein family (“sunshine” in German), spanning 50 years of the 20th century.

results.listIds.director : István Szabó

results.listIds.year : 1999

results.listIds.duration : 173

results.listIds.lang : English

Hitler's Henchmen - Eichmann, The Exterminator

Documentary film that deals with Adolf Eichmann a central figure in the organization of the "Final Solution of the Jewish Problem". The film describes Eichmann's path in the Nazi party, his activity in the Austrian Nazi party, his various posts until his specializing in the area of deportations, his activity in the years of the war, his place in carrying out "The Final Solution", his escape to South America, his life in Argentina, his capture by agents of the Mossad and his trial in Jerusalem. Includes archival films, interviews and testimonies.

results.listIds.director : Guido Knopp

results.listIds.year : 1998

results.listIds.duration : 52

results.listIds.lang : German

Raoul Wallenberg - Buried Alive

Examines the role of Raoul Wallenberg in saving Hungarian Jews during World War II, his disappearance after the Russians occupied Budapest, and the reports through the intervening decades that Wallenberg was imprisoned in Russia. Includes testimonies from Wallenberg's associates, his sister, and Jews who survived because of Wallenberg's intervention

results.listIds.director : David Harel

results.listIds.year : 1983

results.listIds.duration : 78

results.listIds.lang : English

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