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A feature film. Prague, 1942. The Third Reich is at its zenith, controlling most of Europe.

Director : Cédric Jimenez

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 116

Language : English

A documentary by Award-winning filmmaker, Marina Willer (Cartas da Mãe), creates an impressionistic visual essay as she traces her father's family journey as one of only twelve Jewish families to survive the Nazi occupation of Prague during World War II. Photographed by Academy Award (R) nominee Cesar Charlone (City of God), the film travels from war-torn Eastern Europe to the color and light of South America and is told through the voice of Willer's father Alfred (as narrated by Tim Piggot Smith, Quantum of Solace), who witnessed bureaucratic nightmares, transportations and suicides but survived to build a...

Director : Marina Willer

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 80

Language : English, Portuguese

Anthropoid

Drama based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the World War II mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich. The Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler, Heydrich was the main architect behind the Final Solution and the leader of occupying Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia whose reign of terror prompted self-exiled Czech and Slovak soldiers to hatch a top-secret mission that would change the face of Europe forever.

Director : Sean Ellis

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 120

Language : English, French, Spanish