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A short documentary about the French sculptor of Polish origins and Holocaust Survivor, Shlomo Selinger. He is filmed in his studio at work. Selinger tells of his works, sculptures and drawings about the Holocaust.

Director : Béatrice Hérold-Ascoli, Alain Braun, Michel Garel

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 54

Language : French

Shelomo Selinger - The Entrance to the Studio

Documentary film about the French sculptor of Polish origins and Holocaust Survivor, Shlomo Selinger. Selinger is filmed at work in his studio. He discusses his work, sculptures and drawings about the Holocaust.

Director : Alain Braun

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 67

Language : French

The Seven Gates of Shelomo Selinger - Drancy, the Gate of Death

A short documentary about the French aculptor of Polish origins and Holocaust Survivor, Shlomo Selinger, who sculpted a memorial monument at the transit camp Dranci, near Paris.

Director : Alain Braun

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 13

Language : French

כתבת הטל' הישראלית על פסל הכד מאת האמן פיטר ברנדס שהוצב ביד-ושם לזכר סבו שנספה בשואה, 25.10.1995.

כתבת הטל' הישראלית על פסל הכד מאת האמן פיטר ברנדס שהוצב ביד-ושם לזכר סבו שנספה בשואה, 25.10.1995

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 3

Language : English, Hebrew

German Newsreels no. (29/3/44), 709 (5/4/44).

Newsreel no. 708 (29 March, 1944): The chemist and industrialist Professor Krauch in a laboratory that produces synthetic fiber. Women gymnasts from Berlin and Dresden compete. At the Schiller Theater, Heinrich George talks to his co-workers about resuscitating the theater after air attacks (synchronous sound), excerpts from several scenes of a production of Urfaust at the theater are shown (synchronous sound). Goebbels greets a delegation of officers and soldiers who took part in the hard battles for the city of Cassino, a comic master-of-ceremonies introduces them in a theater (synchronous sound), and...

Production Year : 1944

Duration : 36 37

Language : English, German

Art in the Third Reich - The Orchesration of Power

museum, art exhibits, artistic and political motifs, motif of the soldier willing to sacrifice himself for the nation. Footage, From the film "Request Concert", 1940. Music. Footage: from a Nazi propaganda film, female typists singing.

Director : Peter Adam

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 60

Language : English, German

The Architecture of Doom

This documentary explores the fixation Hitler had with what he considered as aesthetic and how he applied his notions while heading the Nazi state. He opposed any form of artwork made by Jewish and Soviet artists as “degenerate and avant-garde”, while praised expression of physical beauty and health as “pure”. Hitler is shown here as an amateur architect who spends a lot of time planning designs of future buildings for the 3rd Reich and acquiring paintings and sculptures that reinforce his vision. At one point in the film, director Peter Cohen questions Hitler's grasp of reality. Cohen, an award-winning...

Director : Peter Cohen

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 120

Language : German

Good Morning Mr. Hitler

Film based on archival films in color that document the showy Nazi festival "German Art Day" which was held in Munich during the weekend of 14-16 July 1939, in the presence of senior Nazis. Includes additional archival films and expert commentary.

Director : Paul Yule, Luke Holland

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 54

Language : English

דני קרוון

סרט תיעודי. קרוב למאה עבודות אמנות סביבתית של דני קרוון פזורות ברחבי העולם. הוא זכה בפרסי האמנות הבינלאומיים היוקרתיים ביותר, וכמעט אין יום שבו הוא לא מוזמן להתראיין או להרצות על האמנות פורצת הדרך שלו. אך קרוון רחוק מלהיות מרוצה: מצב התחזוקה של עבודות הענק שלו בכי רע, גילו המופלג מתחיל לתת אותותיו, המצב הפוליטי בישראל מטריף את דעתו והבמאי שעושה עליו סרט מעצבן אותו עם שאלות שמעידות על בורותו באמנות. בנוסף, הוא גם מוצא עצמו בדילמה פוליטית ואמנותית בעקבות יצירה חדשה שהוזמן ליצור לזכר חסידי אומות העולם הפולנים שהצילו יהודים במלחמת העולם השנייה. "דני קרוון" הסרט מתנהג כמו דני קרוון האיש והאמן – פשוט אך מורכב, מלא כאב...

Director : ברק הימן, לוקאש קונופה

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 54

Language : Arabic, English, Hebrew, Polish

Is There Poetry After Auschwitz?

This documentary draws a portrait of artist Vivienne Hermann. Imprisoned at the age of 9 in labor camps in Czechoslovakia and Poland, the Holocaust continued to play a prominent role in Hermann's art long after her liberation. Interviews with Hermann and her son, family photographs and letters, and images of Hermann's work.

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 60

Language : English