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A dramatic feature film. Accurate translation: "Squinty Luck". Sounds good, but the story is an odyssey of a little man through Poland of 1930 to 1950. It shows his attempts to cope with a changing world which seems to have no place for him. A simple and unfortunate man who cannot not act but innocently although it is clear that he is going from bad to worse. It is a story of the hardships of a long journey of an unlucky person in Poland in the years 1930 to 1950. The man is trying to cope with a changing world in which he cannot find his place. He loses his love because he refuses to be involved in fascist...

Director : Andrzej Munk

Production Year : 1960

Duration : 110

Language : Polish

Cross of Valor

Summary: Three unrelated stories. The film was a voice in the national discussion about the experience of World War II. The first story - "Medal of Valor" is the story of a Catholic Polish villager soldier who was drafted to the army in 1939 and towards the end of the war, along with the Red Army arrived to liberate Poland from the Germans. He receives the highest military decoration of Poland after conducting a daring military operation. Following this he won a four-day vacation with his family, and arrives to find his native village completely destroyed and all the residents except for one, killed. The...

Director : Kazimierz Kutz

Production Year : 1958

Duration : 84

Language : Polish

The Last Klezmer: Leopold Kozlowski, His Life and Music

Yale Strom traveled to Eastern Europe to search for remnants of klezmer music (Jewish folk melodies) that survived the Holocaust such as recordings, sheet music and klezmer musicians. In this program he interviews and travels with Leopold Kozlowski, the last klezmer, who grew up in the tradition. Special mention, Ecumenical Jury Prize, Berlin Film Festival.

Director : Yale Storm

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 84

Language : English, Polish, Russian, Yiddish

Fugitive aka The Runaway

Documentary about Kazimierz Piechowski - the organizer of the most daring escape from Auschwitz. For belonging to the Army was also imprisoned by the authorities after the war. Story of an ordinary man who became the victim of two totalitarian systems: Nazism and communism.

Director : Marek Tomasz Pawłowski

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 56

Language : Polish

Another Truth

Documentary. During the 2nd World War the threat of total extinction hung over the Jews in Europe, given the silence of democratic countries and the Jewish Diaspora. After the war, the Poles ran a propaganda campaign designed to cleanse their conscience of the stain of indifference of Poland in relation to the extermination of its Jews, and to answer the allegations that Poland collaborated with the German extermination of the Jews. They highlighted the help Poland gave Jews and as a result the risks Poles were exposed to from their German occupiers. The film tells the history of Polish Jewry beginning in the...

Director : Jagna Wright, Aneta Naszyńska

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 41

Language : Polish

Birth certificate

Threes short- stories (On the road, Letter from the camp, Blood drop) presenting full of tension atmosphere of every day occupation life, From the children's perspective.

Director : Stanislaw Rozewicz

Production Year : 1961

Duration : 99

Language : Polish

Lerner's Revenge

Summary: This documentary accompanies Ronny Lerner, an Israeli businessman, on his journey to, and in Poland in order to try and understand what happened to his family in the Holocaust. Lerner discovers that after the family had run away from their village in Poland, his father, Yitzhak Lerner, lived in Warsaw with two women under assumed identities. At the end of the war Lerner senior returned to the place where his family was murdered in order to get revenge. Now Lerner the son arrives there in order to see for himself where everything happened and he even manages to get to the last murderer. The...

Director : Gilad Tokatly

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 60

Language : English, Hebrew, Polish

In the Forest of Katyn

Documentary film by the director Andrzej Vejda that deals with the massacre of around 4,000 Polish officers who were murdered on Stalin's orders by the NKVD in the Katyn forest not far from Smolensk, Russia, at the beginning of 1940. Includes testimonies by the wives of the victims and archival photographs.

Director : Marcel Lozinski, Andrzej Wajda

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 54

Language : Polish

Katyn

Documentary film dealing with the “Massacre in Katyn Forest” – Approximately 4,000 Polish officers, captured by the Soviets, were killed. The massacre was carried out in 1940 by the NKVD in Katyn Forest which is situated west of Smolensk. It was verified by the discovery of the bodies in a mass grave by the Germans in 1943. This caused accusations of guilt to be exchanged between the Soviets and the Germans. An investigation by US Congress in the 1950s revealed that the massacre was carried out by the secret Soviet police under instruction from the Soviet Government. Only in 1989, during the rule of...

Director : Witold Zadrowski

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 43

Language : French

German Newsreels no. 471 (14/9/39), 472 (20/9/39), 473 (27/9/39).

Newsreel no. 471 (14 September, 1939): At Berlin's Rheinmetall Borsig Works field Marshal Hermann Goering enjoins a crowd of factory workers to display their loyalty to the Fuehrer. German infantry advances ever deeper into Poland, troops round up civilian prisoners, including Polish Jews, and insurgents are taken to large camps. Footage shows worshipping German soldiers exiting the Jasna Gora Church, belying Allied claims that Germans had destroyed it. German tanks cross bridges repaired by combat engineers. Stukas deliver long rolls of surveillance film, which are developed and studied in the field....

Production Year : 1939

Duration : 55

Language : English, German

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