A documentary. The past collides with the precarious present in Amsterdam. the film presents two portraits: a door-to-door excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts the city, and a journey through the last years of pandemic and protest. What emerges is both devastating and life-affirming, an expansive meditation on memory, time, and where we’re headed.
The film is based on the book "Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945)" written by Bianca Stigter.
The film was screened at the Jewish cinema week, Jerusalem, December 2023.
A short animation film pays tribute to the ingenuity of the Dutch people during a dark period of their history – the winter of hunger of 1944-45. It’s the closing months of the war in occupied Holland and some women unravel a beautiful bedspread in order to knit 55 socks to barter for food. In the film making the director reached back into his childhood memories
John Evans and Corey Niemchick's documentary Reckoning: Remember the Dutch Resistance chronicles the efforts made by the Dutch people to disrupt and end the Nazi occupation of their country. The filmmakers sit down with survivors from that time who share the stories of tragedy and triumph, while creating a harrowing portrait of this brutal moment in human history.
An amazing story was discovered in the archives of a Jewish community in Holland: two German soldiers were responsible for the survival of a great part of the community during WWII. Gerhardt sadly fell in battle in 1944, but Werner Klemke returned to East Berlin, in the former GDR and made a career as a world famous illustrator – with a little help of his Dutch resistance friends