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Oberammergau - The Passion Story and the Jews

This documentary presents the theatre performance “The Passion” which deals with the trial and death sentence of Jesus and is performed in Obermmergau, Germany, every 10 years. Obermmergau is a Bavarian village with thousands of inhabitants, mostly orthodox Catholics. The performance “The Passion” was written and performed by locals. It was first performed in the 17th century to honor Jesus as none of the locals had died from the black plague that was spreading through Europe at that time. For the inhabitants of the village, the play was a religious experience that also proved financially rewarding as it...

Production Year : 1980

Duration : 20

Language : English

Days Made of Fear

This documentary film is a collection of 8 films which offer persuasive evidence that, so far, these standards have not been met. Films cover events from the onset of violence in Kosovo (preceding the NATO intervention in 1999), until the most recent terrorist attacks committed by Albanian extremists in 2005, and are, in fact, a unique and exclusive video document about some of the crucial aspects of the current Kosovo crisis.

Director : Ninoslav Randjelovic

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 160

Language : English, Serbian

In the Shadow of the Cross

Yaron London presents the stories of five accomplished professionals who were hidden as children in monasteries and convents during the Second World War.

Director : Avi Amber

Duration : 90 92

Language : Hebrew

Persil Tickets and False Passports - How Churches Helped the Nazis After the War

Documentary about the churches aid to Nazi fugitives after the war.

Director : Ernst Klee

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 45

Language : German

שעות אחרונות בפודמביצה - יעקב רוזנקרנץ ואברהם ציגלר

Documentary film that deals wit the Nazi occupation of Podembice, a town near Lodz, Poland, which was annexed to the German Reich upon the outbreak of the Second World War and the stories of two Jewish survivors, Avraham Ziegler (Tel Aviv) and Yaacov Rosenkrantz (Antwerp).

Director : Hans - Dieter Grabe

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 72

Language : German, Hebrew

Underlying Antisemitism

Naftali Gliksberg sets off on a journey following stories, people, events and places in which contemporary Anti-Semitism is manifested. This series investigates the roots of this modern Anti-Semitism, as evident in recent years around the world. The series was shot in 10 countries in Europe and the USA. Throughout its 4 episodes the viewers are exposed to incredible discoveries about the depth of Anti-Semitism in different countries and the new form it has taken. Parades in the streets and Neo-Nazi ceremonies have been replaced by a kind of social culture, shared by apparently ordinary, educated people and...

Director : Naftali Gliksberg

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 75

Language : English, German, Hebrew, Polish

Edith Stein, Echt and the Truth

This documentary tells the story of Edith Stein (1891-1942), a German philosopher of Jewish decent whom Pope John Paul II canonized in 1998. Stein converted to Catholicism in 1922 and lived as nun in the Carmelite Convent of Echt, South Holland. During World War II she was deported and died in Auschwitz. Director Frederieke Jochems worked for 9 years to bring Edith Stein's story to life and to illuminate the controversy surrounding the canonization. Featuring Holocaust survivor Max Hamburger, Carmelite nun Maria Amate Neyer, Stein’s American niece Susanne Batzdorff, feminist theologian Thalia Gur-Klein, American...

Director : Frederieke Jochems

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 50

Language : Dutch

Pope John Paul II

Filmed in Rome and Austria, this TV biopic tells the story of Pope John Paul II, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 16.10.1978 until his death in 2005. The story begins in 1938, when teen-aged Karol Wojtyla, a would-be actor, decides instead to enter the priesthood. Played from age 26 onward by actor Albert Finney, Wojtyla spends WWII years in the Polish anti-Nazi movement. He continues battling for his beliefs with the Communist-ruled Polish government in the postwar years. In 1978, Wojtyla is elected to succeed Pope John Paul I, thereby becoming the first non-Italian pope in 4 centuries. Relations between...

Director : Herbert Wise

Production Year : 1984

Duration : 150

Language : English

Born in Berlin - Three Women Between Berlin and Jerusalem

This penetrating documentary produced for Israeli television looks at the lives of three Jewish women writers: Cordelia Edvardson, Angelika Schrobsdorff, and Inge Deutschkron. All three grew up in pre-war Berlin, until Nazi racial laws shattered their lives. Uprooted and cut off from family and friends, all three women made their way to Israel, where they became accomplished journalists and authors. The film follows the unique paths taken by each of these women in her quest for identity and the meaning of life in the aftermath of their dreadful wartime experiences.

Director : Noemi Schory, Liora Kaminetzki

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 80

Language : English, German, Hebrew, Swedish

The Unholy Battle For Rome

In September 1943, the German army marched into Rome and began a nine-month battle for the “Eternal City”. For Hitler, control of Rome was symbolic and of strategic importance because the city was the European partner of Nazi Germany. The allies were steadfast in their control of the city’s holy institutions and her treasures. This documentary presents the battle for Rome and is based on Robert Katz’s provocative book of 2003: ‘The Battle for Rome: The Germans, the Allies, the Partisans, and the Pope, September 1943 – June 1944’. Katz is an American author and playwright living in Tuscany. He researches the...

Duration : 50

Language : English

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