Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Observatório da Imprensa - Hollywood de Uniforme, Episode 2

תוכנית טלויזיה של ערוץ ברזילאי על מלחמת העולם השניה. שודרה ב 1.9.2009.

Director : Rafael Case

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 52

Language : Portuguese

This film combines the documentary genre with the cabaret. Only 25 years after Nazi Germany carried out the Holocaust on Polish soil, 30,000 Jews, including intelligentsia, scientists, artists and exceptional writers, were expelled from Poland. In the anti-Semitic campaign sponsored by the state in March 1968 in Communist Poland, the last Holocaust survivors - in the pre-war country of more than three million Jewish citizens - were declared "Foreigners," "Zionists," "Cosmopolites," and "Enemies of the Polish People's Republic", and forced to leave the country. Many of the emmigrants found shelter in Scandinavia,...

Director : ניר דויד זץ, Zuzanna Solakiewicz

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 49

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Ghetto Theresienstadt - Deception And Reality

Through eyewitness testimony, paintings, photographs and archival films the film tells about the Theresienstadt Ghetto, "The Model Ghetto", which was established in the Czech fortressed city Terezin, around 60 kilometers north of Prague, and served during the years 1941-1945 as a transit camp for Jews, mostly Czechs, Germans, Austrians and Dutch, before their transport to the death camps in the east.

Director : Irmgard Von Zur Muehlen

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 78

Language : English, German

Harlan - In the Shadow of the Jew Suess

The documentary presents the first biography of Veit Harlan with numerous film extracts and previously unreleased film material from the private family archive. It also shows how Veit Harlan’s family - including the youngest generation - still struggles today with the dark myth of artistic immorality. Veit Harlan was Nazi Germany’s most successful film director. A hundred million spectators saw his films all over Europe, including the perfidious anti-Semitic propaganda film The Jew Suess. Equally obsessive as he was gifted, Harlan is without a doubt Nazi cinema’s most equivocal figure, together with Leni...

Director : Felix Moeller

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 100

Language : German

Classic Club - Pavel Haas Quartet

The Pavel Haas Quartet is a string quartet founded in 2002, since when it has a won a number of international awards. Named after the Czech composer Pavel Haas (1899–1944), who was deported from Czechoslovakia in 1941 and died in the Auschwitz concentration camp, the quartet is made up of first violinist Veronika Jarůškova, second violinist Eva Karová, violist Pavel Nikl, and cellist Peter Jarůšek.

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 55

Language : Czech, Japanese

A Film Unfinished

A documentary . This film is about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation forever changing the way we look at historic images.

Director : Yael Hersonski

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 89

Language : English, German, Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

Respite

A documentary film using unique archive material from 1944 filmed by a Jewish prisoner at the transfer concentration camp at Westerbork in the Netherlands – Rudolf Breslauer. All prisoners of the Westerbork camp – created in 1939 by the Dutch authorities, with the aim of interning German Jews – were later gassed in Auschwitz; including the man who filmed them. Harun Farocki equips this rediscovered film material with a sparing commentary, identifying some of the victims and presenting their likeness while still alive alongside information about the number of the transport, the date when they left Westerbork, and...

Director : Harun Farocki

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 40

Language : Silent Film

Thomas Harlan - Moving Shrapnel

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

Swastika

A documentary. The Nazification of Germany from 1933 to 1945 told through a compilation of Nazi footage, newsreels, propaganda films and Eva Braun's home movies.This documentary shows also the private face of Hitler through Eva Braun's home movies, contrasted with newsreels from the Nazi era to present an extraordinary pictorial record of the regime.

Director : Philippe Mora

Production Year : 1973

Duration : 113

Language : English

Films of Hate - The Nazi Cinema in the War Against the Jews, part 2

The TV series "The films of hatred" is not another series on the history of the Holocaust, but an event of interdisciplinary communications. The event was planned by experts on history, sociology, psychology, communications, film and propaganda, and deals with the stereotype of the Jew in film and the influence of media on the masses in Nazi Germany that led to murder Jews in terrible ways by their atrocity. Dr. Baruch Gitlis, international expert on the Nazi propaganda film, edited chapters of the series in a dynamic and direct, easy to grasp and understand, causing a deep discussion on the topic. The...

Director : Baruj Gitlis

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 57

Language : German, Spanish

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