סרט תיעודי שצולם במגרת התערוכה המוקדשת ליהדות יוון. התערוכה נפתחה במוזיאון חהדות ביוון ב-26 למאי 2009. הסרט כולל עדויות של ניצולי שואה יוצאי יוון אשר מספרים על חיי הקהילה טרום מלחמה ביוון.
Elem Klimov, head of the Soviet Filmmakers Association, explores the horrors of WW2 in this coming-of-age drama, and an indictment of the Nazis, as seen through the eyes of Florya, a 14-year-old farm boy who looses his innocence when becoming a witness of genocide. The story begins when Florya steals a gun from a soldier's shallow grave and runs off to join the Resistance fighters in wooded Byelorussia. But after he's left behind by the older partisans, Florya returns home to find his mother and baby sisters have been slaughtered, along with the other villagers. The grieving boy travels on to nearby town, where...
Archival series of 26 programmes looking at the past 100 years. Three chapetrs are relevant: 1933- In this series looking at momemtous events in the twentieth century through the eyes of ordinary people, this programme looks at the rise of Hitler and its consequences. 1939- Civilians recount their experiences of the Second World War. 1945- Brave New World: Charts the meeting of American and Soviet armies on the banks of the Elbe in 1945. American and Russian soldiers talk about that experience. The programme covers the period from victory in the Second World War through the rise of the Cold War to the building...
Documentary about the lesser known transports of the Czechoslovakian Jews to the concentration camps in Estonia. The testimonies of the survivors are complemented by the unique archive material.
Documentary about the lesser known transports of the Czechoslovakian Jews to the concentration camps in Latvia. The testimonies of the survivors are complemented by the unique archive material.
Nazi lavish historical drama that was one of the central propaganda efforts of the 3rd Reich film industry. Made in 1943-1944, "Kolberg" intended to counter the Germans' war-weariness and encourage optimistic spirit. The story is loosely based on the events that took place in Kolberg, the small town on the Prussian Baltic coast whose inhabitants raised a people's militia against Napoleon's invading forces in 1806-07 at a time when the army was ready to surrender. The film's two heroes are Nettelbeck, Kolberg's Mayor, and Gneisenau, the leader of the Prussian soldiers. Despite the corruption of the local...
Nazi propaganda film about the Polish Campaign and the part of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) in it. The film, which has an explicit anti-British note, including the original score of composer Norbert Schultze's hymn to the German Air Force, "Bomben auf England".
et in a small Bulgarian village in 1943, this East German drama questions human conscience and personal responsibility in a love story between a German sergeant and a Jewish woman. Film won the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes film festival of 1959.