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יומן - כתבה על רודף פושעים נאצים, תומאס ואלטר

בכתבתו של איתי דודי, תומאס ואלטר, שופט גרמני בדימוס, רודף ומביא למשפט פושעים נאציים מבקר בארץ.

Director : איתי ורד

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 11

Language : English, German, Hebrew

In this documentary, German director Malte Ludin examines the impact of Nazism in his family through his father’s, Hanns Ludin, personal story. Ludon the father was the 3rd reich ambassador to Slovakia and as such, he signed deportation orders that sent thousands of Jews to Auschwitz. In 1947 he was executed for war crimes. Malte Ludin, the director, did not undertake this film until after the death of his mother, Erla. The documentary does include clips of earlier interviews he conducted with her. Malte's sister Barbel is shown defending her father and insisting that he couldn't have known the full truth about...

Director : Malte Ludin

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 85

Language : German

The Myth of Albert Speer

Albert Speer was the only Nazi in a leading position to accept responsibility for the crimes of the 3rd Reich and was convicted to a 20-year prison sentence at the Nuremberg Trials. This kindly old gentleman liked to appear in interviews and published a bestseller memoir. The 1st in a series of films entitled "Faces of the 3rd Reich", this documentary tries to answer the question whether Hitler's chief architect and minister for armaments and war production was actually feeling a true sense of guilt or only acted as if he did in order to cover his own complicity. Producer Michael Kloft managed to convince...

Director : Michael Kloft

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 49

Language : German

Nuremberg - The Nazis Facing Their Crimes

Based on films shot during real time court sessions by a team headed by Hollywood director John Ford, this documentary tells of the main Nuremberg Trial. In contrast to other films on this issue, this film focuses on images and footages taken from inside the courtroom. By virtue of the editing, the film shows gradually the extent of the crimes systematically planned and committed by the accused. Only to the end of the term the term “Holocaust” is heard as the French and British prosecutors said it. Including testimony of the Jewish poet, Abraham Sutzkever, a survivor of the Nazi persecution in Vilna, extracts...

Director : Christian Delage

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 90

Language : English, German

Walk On Water

Through the story of Eyal, an Israeli Mossad Agent, this Israeli drama deals with the Holocaust, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, homosexuality, collective memory and Israel – Germany relations. Eyal, second generation to the Holocaust, is given a mission by his operators to gather information on the location of an aging German Nazi, Alfred Himmelman. His mission requires befriending the two grandchildren of Himmelman; Pia a volunteer in a Kibbutz and Axel her brother who comes to visit her in Israel. In the course of implementing his mission, Eyal goes through a transformation. His intransigent perception softens...

Director : Eytan Fox

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 139

Language : English, Hebrew

Line of Separation- episode 3 -My LAnd Your Land

A Television series. A little German town located on the Bavarian and Thuringian border gets caught in the current of world history at the end of the Second World War. Family, friends and lovers are separated from each other, first by a wooden fence, later by a border with shoot-to-kill order. Tannbach is a German-German story under the burning glass, exemplified by the fate of a small village communit. Tannbach is a German mini-series that first aired in 2015. It is a fictionalized story inspired by a village that was divided by the Iron Curtain along a brook known as the Tannbach. The series explores the...

Production Year : 2015

Duration : 98

Language : German

Line of Separation- episode 2 -Dispossession+My LAnd Your Land

A Television series. A little German town located on the Bavarian and Thuringian border gets caught in the current of world history at the end of the Second World War. Family, friends and lovers are separated from each other, first by a wooden fence, later by a border with shoot-to-kill order. "Tannbach" is a German-German story under the burning glass, exemplified by the fate of a small village communit. Tannbach is a German mini-series that first aired in 2015. It is a fictionalized story inspired by a village that was divided by the Iron Curtain along a brook known as the Tannbach. The series explores the...

Production Year : 2015

Duration : 249

Language : German

Line of Separation

Production Year : 2015

Duration : 91

Language : German

Winter Hunt

A thriller. A young woman goes to extremes to seek reprisal against a suspected ex-Nazi. Driving on a deserted highway through the German countryside, the woman arrives at the Rossberg’s remote estate. Feigning a car accident, she begs for help from the a mans's daughter. The woman wants to confront the aged patriarch Rossberg , a former Auschwitz guard accused of war crimes. The film shows drama about wartime guilt and culpability across generations.

Director : Astrid Schult

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 78

Language : German

Hannah Arendt

Biopic "Hannah Arendt" centers on Arendt's response to the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann, which she covered for The New Yorker. Her writing on the trial became controversial for its depiction of both Eichmann and the Jewish councils, and for its introduction of Arendt's now-famous concept of "the banality of evil". The film, which captures Arendt at one of the most pivotal moments of her life and career, also features portrayals of other prominent intellectuals, including philosopher Martin Heidegger, novelist Mary McCarthy, and New Yorker editor William Shawn.

Director : Margarethe Von Trotta

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 113

Language : English, German