Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Documentary film that tells about the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944. At the center of the film, a survey of the figure of Claus von Stauffenberg, a German officer and opponent of Hitler, who carried the suitcase bomb into the Fuhrer's headquarters in E. Prussia ("the wolfs' den") that was supposed to kill Hitler, and his heritage in Germany after World War II. Includes testimonies, analysis of historians and politicians and archival films.

Director : Irmgard Von Zur Muehlen

Duration : 42

Language : German

The Travel Agency of Josef Schleich aka Schleich's Restaurant

This documentary tells the story of Josef Schleich who saved thousands of Jews in 1938-41. Schleich, who loved surrounding himself with beautiful women and had 7 children to feed, started to smuggle Jews from Germany in 1938. His apartment was a station on the route to safety. There are no precise records of his activities, but he may have helped 20,000 Jews to leave the country in 1938-41. In March 1941, when he was arrested by the Gestapo in Graz and taken to court. The film explores here original locations and presents interviews with living witnesses: his children, farmers from the border country of Austria...

Director : Elisabeth Stratka, Gerald Navara

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 43

Language : German

The Sound of Music

Successful musical film based on a true story. The story that takes place in Salzburg at the end of the 1930s tells about Maria, a young woman who is sent from a local convent to serve as a nanny for the seven children of Captain von Trapp, formerly a Navy officer and sworn anti-Nazi. "The Sound of Music" was very popular and won five Oscar Awards.

Director : Robert Wise

Production Year : 1965

Duration : 176

Language : English, French

The Dreamed ones

The correspondence between Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan forms the textual basis of this hybrid of feature film and documentary. Two young actors, Anja Plaschg and Laurence Rupp, meet in a recording studio to read from it. The feelings of intoxication and fear of loss, delight and fright, closeness and strangeness pass over to the actors. But they also have fun, argue, smoke, talk about tattoos and music. Whether love then or love now, whether staging or documentary: where the levels blur, the heart of the film beats.

Director : Ruth Beckermann

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 89

Language : German