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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...

results.listIds.director : Jorge Amat

results.listIds.year : 2006

results.listIds.duration : 124

results.listIds.lang : French

Canal

This is the 2nd in famed Polish Andrzej Wajda WWII trilogy (preceded by “A Generation” [55] and followed by “Ashes and Diamonds” [58]). Set in Warsaw during the last days of the Polish uprising in the summer of 1944, the film tells of Polish civilians and soldiers who were no more capable of pursuing the resistance to the Nazi occupation and retreat from a certain death to a relative liberty through the city’s sewers for the “last hours of their lives” as declared in the early in the film by the voice over, hours of suffering, treason, despair, suicide and death. Wajda was awarded the “Special Jury Prize” at the...

results.listIds.director : Andrzej Wajda

results.listIds.year : 1957

results.listIds.duration : 96

results.listIds.lang : Polish

אסתר והקצין - סיפורה של אסתר מירון

סרט מתוך הסדרה "הסיפור שלנו - רוח האדם בשואה" המספרים את סיפורם של ניצולי שואה. סיפורה של נערה יהודייה בכלא ההונגרי הפתיעה את קצין הכלא בחוצפתה ותעוזתה יוצאת הדופן . נשלחה לאושוויץ , שרדה 17 פעמים את הסלקציות של מנגלה ועלתה לארץ.

results.listIds.director : שירה מישר

results.listIds.year : 2020

results.listIds.duration : 6

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Accused of Planning the World War III

A documentary portrait of Karol Noskovič, the activist of the Slovak Confederation of the Political Prisoners, who was in his youth unfairly accused and imprisoned.

results.listIds.director : Juraj Brocko

results.listIds.year : 2008

results.listIds.duration : 27

results.listIds.lang : Czech

Polish Roads - Part 7

This is the epic story with many threads. The series starts in september 1939, during the German invasion of Poland. It shows different reactions of polish people to this and to the later occupation. Some are resisting, some try to accomodate, some try to live as if nothing happened.

results.listIds.director : Janusz Morgenstern

results.listIds.year : 1976

results.listIds.duration : 90

results.listIds.lang : Polish