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As Viktoria Chaplin was looking through her father Charlie’s personal positions, she found a unique document. 16mm filmstrip that was shot by her uncle Sydney Chaplin and documented her father Charlie during the time of shooting The Great Dictator (1940). The unusual film, shot in color in amateur camera highlights Chaplin’s ambitious projects: his revenge on the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler. With his satirical genius, he not only exposed the “Führer” to ridicule, but more than that, he revealed the brutal nature of Nazism. This documentary gives unlimited access to Chaplin’s cinematic and literary estate, and...

results.listIds.director : Michael Kloft

results.listIds.year : 2002

results.listIds.duration : 56

results.listIds.lang : English, German

Rosenstrasse

A drama about a less known chapter in the history of the Third Reich. The struggle of the women married to Jews who tried to prevent their husbands from being sent to work at the Jewish Community Facilities in 1943.

results.listIds.director : Margarethe Von Trotta

results.listIds.year : 2003

results.listIds.duration : 136

results.listIds.lang : German

Alfred Nakache, The Swimmer of Auschwitz

Documentary on Alfred Nakache born in November 1915 in Constantine, Algeria swimming champion deported to Auschwitz with his family.

results.listIds.director : Christian Meunier

results.listIds.year : 2001

results.listIds.duration : 49 51

results.listIds.lang : French

Emperor of the Ghetto

סיפורו של "זקן היהודים בגטו לודז' - חיים רומקובסקי.

results.listIds.year : 1992

results.listIds.duration : 113

The Goldman case

מותחן עלילתי באורך מלא.

results.listIds.director : Cédric Kahn

results.listIds.year : 2023

results.listIds.duration : 116

results.listIds.lang : French

Who is Afraid of Hitler’s Town? A House and the Past Within Us

A documentary. Why has no film ever been made in Austria about Hitler’s birthplace and house? This is the question that is been discussedin the film. The house had been expropriated by the Republic of Austria. For five years, there were developments surrounding the subsequent use of Hitler’s birthplace with a very personal view. From questioning the cliché of the “Nazi city” to surprising and outrageous discoveries. The film was shown at Jewish cinema week, December 2023.

results.listIds.director : Günter Schwaiger

results.listIds.year : 2023

results.listIds.duration : 99

results.listIds.lang : German

משפט אייכמן - האחרונים שנשארו

כתבת טלוויזיה.

results.listIds.year : 2023

results.listIds.duration : 12

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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.

results.listIds.director : Krzysztof Lang

results.listIds.year : 2022

results.listIds.duration : 115

results.listIds.lang : Polish

An Encounter with Simone Weil

Adocumentary film. This tells the story of French philosopher, activist, and mystic, Simone Weil (1909-1943). Albert Camus describedher as "the only great spirit of our time." The film confronts profound questions of moral responsibility both within aprivate family and 21st-century America. From the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War to anti-war protests in Washington DC, from intimate exchanges between a young man who struggles with mental illness, to captivating interviews with people who knew Simone Weil, the film takes us on a journey into the heart of what it means to be a compassionate human being.

results.listIds.director : Julia Haslett

results.listIds.year : 2010

results.listIds.duration : 85

results.listIds.lang : English, French

How Holocaust came to TV

סרט תיעודי.

results.listIds.director : Alice Agneskirchner

results.listIds.year : 2019

results.listIds.duration : 89

results.listIds.lang : English

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