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A feature film. 1952, Paris. Nadia, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demonstration, she's rescued by a " Paris Match" photographer. As the friendship becomes a love affair and her slogans are tested by new knowledge and emotion, some of the Red youth want to expel her. When she goes with Stיphane to a seaside photo shoot, her father goes to the police. Stיphane faces charges, so leaving to cover the war in Indochina looks appealing. In a parallel story, Nadia's mother meets again her prewar lover, released from Siberia, who challenges the...

Director : Véra Belmont

Production Year : 1985

Duration : 112

Language : French

Under This Same Sky

Director : Kurt Weber

Production Year : 1955

Duration : 19

Language : English

The Miracle of Bern

In 1954, Richard (Peter Lohmeyer) returns to his German hometown after seven years as a prisoner of war. The years have taken their toll, and he fails to relate to his family -- particularly his soccer-loving son, Matthias (Louis Klamroth). Meanwhile, a journalist (Lukas Gregorowicz) and his wife head to Bern, Switzerland, to write about the World Cup. The stories of these strangers converge when they arrive in Bern, where they witness an uplifting German performance in a game against Hungary.

Director : Sönke Wortmann

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 117

Language : German

The Big Lift

A feature film. In 1948, the Soviet Union blockades the Allied sectors of Berlin to bring the entire city under their control.The Western powers choose to solve it by airrlift supplies to Berlin . this was called this operation “Vittles” . this operation saved a large encircled population. .

Director : George Seaton

Production Year : 1950

Duration : 120

Language : English

A Film About Love

סרט עלילתי באורך מלא. סרט עלילתי באורך מלא. מערכת יחסים מורכבת בין שניים חושפת את תחנות חייהם המשותפות. החל מילדותם במלחמת העולם השנייה בבודפשט, הונגריה, עבור בעליית הקומוניזם במדינה, וכלה במרד ההונגרי בשנת 1956. השניים נאבקים על אהבתם תחת שתי רודנויות שמוחקות את היחיד: הנאציזם והקומוניזם. הסרט ייצג את הונגריה בקטגוריית הסרט הזר בתחרות האוסקר לשנת 1970.

Director : István Szabó

Production Year : 1970

Duration : 123

Language : Hungarian

Ridley Road

A television series. When Vivien Epstein follows her lover into danger and he is caught between life and death, Vivien finds herself going undercover with the fascists, not only for him but for the sake of her country. Based on a the book Ridley Road by Jo Bloom.

Director : Lisa Mulcahy

Production Year : 2021

Language : English

Escape from Treblinka: The Joseph Polonski Story

A short documentary. oseph Polonski, one of two known individuals to escape from the Treblinka death camp. The film profiles Polonski's life before, during, and after the Holocaust. It includes original narration, excerpts from an interview with Joseph Polonski, as well as archival photographs and film.

Director : Ken Winikur

Duration : 25

Language : English

A Place to Call Home

סדרת דרמה טלוויזיה. 1953. After 20 years living in Europe, Sarah Adams returns to Australia. While working as a nurse on the ocean voyage home, Sarah meets the influential and wealthy Bligh family and discovers a scandalous family secret. In Sydney, Sarah finds her estranged mother still unwilling to forgive her perceived "sin" of converting to Judaism. With no other prospects, Sarah takes up George Bligh's offer of a job in the Inverness hospital, much to the disapproval of George's overbearing mother, Elizabeth

Director : Bevan Lee

Production Year : 2013

Duration : 60

Language : English

Nyurnberg

A feature film. 1945. The International Military Tribunal begins its work in Nuremberg. A huge number of people from all over the world come to the trial, which will later be called the Trial of the Century. The city is crowded with journalists, lawyers, translators, witnesses and many participants and employees of the process.

Director : Nikolay Lebedev

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 131

Language : English, German, Russian

March 68

A feature film. Two young students meet and fall in love in the midst of social turmoil and Jewish discrimination in 1960s Warsaw. While the young lovers are uninterested in politics, they find themselves unable to avoid the subject when the girl's parents lose their jobs due to the anti-Semitic purge and are forced to emigrate. The two do not want to leave each other , and they participate in a protest rally at the university where they discover freedom comes at a high price. The film was screened at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival 2022.

Director : Krzysztof Lang

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 115

Language : Polish

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