Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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The Last Picture Show in Bucharest aka Nelson

A feature film. In 1941 the Bucharest Pogrom breaks out at local cinema. A ten year old Jewish boy is an eye witness to his father's murder by his next door neighbor, the leader of the fascist militia. After surviving the massacre of Romania's Jews postwar Romania does not join the pursuit for justice. The young boy emigrates to the state of Israel.. Learning that his father's killer is now fighting in Vietnam with the French Foreign Legion while he is fulfilling his own military service in Israel, hedeserts and embarks on a quest for truth, justice, and revenge. This saga unfolds at the 1955 Court Martial in...

Director : Ludi Boeken

Production Year : 2019

Duration : 80

Language : Hebrew, Romanian

The Captain

A feature film. In the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captain's uniform. Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators he is trying to escape from.

Director : Robert Schwentke

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 119

Language : German

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2000 - Nata Osmo Gattegno

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2000. Torchlighter Nata Osmo Gattegno. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew