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Thomas Harlan, filmmaker, author and revolutionary was born in 1929 in Germany. His father was the infamous propaganda filmmaker Veit Harlan, director of Jew Suess. During his childhood, as a result of his father's closeness to the Nazi Party, the little Thomas came face to face with Hitler and Goebbels. Now an old frail man, Harlan lives in a respiratory clinic in Berchtesgaden. It is in this clinic in South Germany that he, along with documentary filmmaker Christoph Hübner, examines fragments of his past. After the Second World War Harlan moved to Berlin and then to France. He met with Gilles Deleuze and Klaus...

Director : Christoph Hübner

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 96

Language : German

Neither Memory Nor Magic - The Life and Times of Miklos Radnoti

In the spring of 1946, a mass grave was unearthed in the Hungarian village of Abda. Twenty-two decayed bodies were found sprawled in the pit. One of the bodies found in the grave was that of the poet Miklos Radnoti, shot into the grave by Hungarian fascists eighteen months earlier. Found in the front pocket of his coat was a small notebook soaked in his bodily fluids. It was laid out to dry in the sunlight and when examined later revealed the poets last poems carefully handwritten onto the ruled lines of the notebook. In the so-called Bor Notebook, Radnoti, through poetry, told the story of the last six months...

Director : Hugo Perez

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 70

Language : English

Radnóty

Director : Eduard Schreiber

Production Year : 1985

Duration : 16

Language : German, Hungarian

Who Will Remain?

A documentary film. Attempting to better understand her grandfather Avrom Sutzkever, Israeli actress Hadas Kalderon travels to Lithuania using her grandfather’s diary to trace his early life in Vilna and his survival during the Holocaust. Sutzkever was an acclaimed Yiddish poet whose verse drew on his youth in Siberia and Vilna, his spiritual and material resistance during World War II, and his post-war life in the State of Israel. The film includes Sutzkever’s testimony at the Nuremberg Trials. Recitation of his poetry and personal reflections on resisting Nazi forces as a partisan fighter reveals how...

Director : Christa P. Whitney

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 60

Language : English, Hebrew, Yiddish

Black Honey, The Life and and Poetry of Avraham Sutskever

A documentary film. The life story of Avrom Sutzkever, one of the greatest Yiddish poets of the twentieth century. Sutzkever helped save rare Jewish books and manuscripts from the Nazis, joined the partisans, and after escaping the Vilna Ghetto, was brought to the USSR as the result of the actions of Jewish writers linked to the regime. After the war, Sutzkever testified at the Nuremberg Trials, and left Europe for Israel with his family. There he founded the most important Yiddish language literary magazine of the period, but did not gain recognition.

Director : Uri Barbash

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 76

Language : English, Hebrew, Yiddish