A Documentary film. Brunhilde Pomsel always described herself as just being a side-line figure and not at all interested in politics. Aged 105, Pomsel used to work as secretary, stenographer and typist for the Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Pomsel’s life mirrors the major historical ruptures of the 20th century and German life thereafter. The film forces viewers to ask themselves what they would have done and whether they would have sacrificed any possible moral principles in order to advance their own careers.
Director : Christian Krönes, Olaf S. Müller, Roland Schrotthofer, Florian Weigensamer
A feature film. An exploration of the moral and survival dilemmas in Auschwitz from the point of view of a deputy head of a block and a few of the prisoners from his block who survived the horrors of the camp, immigrated to Israel in the 40's and are still struggling to begin new life in the newborn state of Israel.
Based on the true story of Eliezer Greenbaum .
האם אדם יכול להיות בו–זמנית גם כומר קתולי וגם יהודי שומר מצוות? 12 שנה לאחר שהוסמך לכמורה, גילה הכומר הקתולי הפולני רומוולד וואשקינל שהוא נולד להורים יהודים וששמו המקורי הוא יעקב וקסלר. הסרט עוקב אחרי מסעו המרתק של הכומר היהודי, שתחילתו בניהול מיסה בכנסיה בלובלין, פולין ואחריתו בחיים של יהודי שומר מצוות בקיבוץ דתי בישראל. קרוע בין שתי זהויות, רומוולד יעקב לא יכול לוותר על אף אחת מהן, וכתוצאה מכך אף אחת מהדתות אינה מוכנה לקבל אותו לשורותיה. מדינת ישראל מסרבת להכיר בו כיהודי, וכעת הוא נדרש לבחור.
A documentary. Adapting Milgram's experiment into a game show format, this documentary explores the limits of human obedience to a new type of authority figure: television.
Director : Thomas Bornot, Alain-Michel Blanc, Gilles Amado
A feature film. Liam is a seven-year-old boy growing up in 1930s Liverpool. Liam's father works at the local shipyard, while his mother keeps the household afloat, pinching pennies, yet keeping spirits high. Life takes a terrible turn when the shipyard closes and Dad loses his job. Humiliated by the fact that his teenage daughter, Teresa, must work as a maid in a wealthy Jewish household, and that his eldest son is the family's major breadwinner, Dad loses his self-respect and becomes disillusioned. A Jewish pawnbroker buys their family trinkets for cash. Their Jewish landlord harasses them for rent. And...
A feature film. An unconventional friendship grows between the German chef of a concentration camp kitchen and the young Belgian jew , who falsely claims to be Persian in order to survive a mass hooting and is now obliged to teach the German officer a language that he only pretends to know.
Based on the short story "Erfindung einer Sprache"by Wolfgang Kohlhaase.
Helmut Doork, a once great and famous clown, is fired from the circus. Getting drunk at a local bar, he pokes fun at Hitler in front of some Gestapo agents, who arrest and send him to a prison camp. Helmut angers his fellow prisoners by refusing to perform for them, wanting to preserve his legend. As times passes, Jews are brought into the camp, with fraternizing between them and the other prisoners strictly prohibited. Eventually, Helmut is forced by the others to perform or be beaten. His act bombs and he leaves the barracks depressed, trying the routine out again alone in the prison yard. He hears laughter...
A feature film. In the Atlantic during WWII, a ship and a German U-boat are involved in a battle and both are sunk. The survivors from the ship gather in one of the boats. They are from a variety of backgrounds: an international journalist, a rich businessman, the radio operator, a nurse, a steward, a sailor and an engineer with communist tendencies. Trouble starts when they pull a man out of the water who turns out to be from the U-boat.