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A television adaptation of Lion Feuchtwanger "The Oppermann House" (Die Geschwister), co-production of the BBC and ZDF (German 2nd TV channel). The story of the Oppermanns, a Jewish-German family, owners of a big department store in Berlin of the early 30s.

Director : Egon Monk

Production Year : 1983

Duration : 104

Language : English, German

The Axe of Wandsbek

Based on Arnold Zweig’s novel (1947), this DEFA drama set in 1934 and tells the story of Albert Teetjen’s, Hamburg butcher who accepts money from the Nazis to serve as a public executioner, and the moral denunciation of his community that drives him to financial ruin and suicide.

Director : Falk Harnack

Production Year : 1951

Duration : 108

Language : German

The Shop on Main Street

Set during WWII Slovakia, this winner of the 1966 best foreign language film Academy Award tells a story of a friendship between Rozalie, an eldery Jewish widow, and Tono, a poor man without any guiding morals or principles who is appointed as an Aryan comptroller of her sewing material shop by the occupation authorities. Partly deaf and very confused, the old widow doesn't even know of the war. When Tono shows up in her store she thinks he is looking for employment and hires him. The odd couple begins to like each other and team up till the Nazis start to set out deportation operations. Tono must decide...

Director : Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos

Production Year : 1965

Duration : 121

Language : Czech

The Fire Test: Night of the Broken Glass, November 1938

Documentary film that describes the events of "Kristallnacht", a pogrom on the night of 9-10 November, 1938, through testimonies and a number of rare archival excerpts.

Director : Erwin Leiser*

Production Year : 1988

Duration : 77

Language : German

“Yet the Story Ended Differently…” - Working Materials to Novemberpogrom 1938 ("Kristallnacht")

סרט תעודי המציג עדויות, מסמכים, קטעי עתונות ותצלומים העוסקים ב"ליל הבדולח".

Director : Nomi Morgenstern

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 18

Language : German

Days That Shook the world - Kristallnacht

Documentary series, dealing with crucial days and events of the 20th century. Each chapter presents archive material and dramatic reenacments. Based on eye-testimonies and archive materials, this episode presents a dramatized account of the events of November 9th, 1938, a night that changed the life of the Jews in Germany and came to known as a turning point in Hitler's persecution of the Jews. Gangs of Nazi youths roamed through Jewish neighborhoods breaking windows and burning and looting synagogues. Many Jews were attacked and 91 died.

Director : Nic Young

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 30

Language : English, German

Daniel's Story

This film was shown as part of the exhibition ‘Remember the Children’ at the Holocaust Museum in Washington. The imagined story of a Jewish boy in Germany during the time of the Nazi rise to power and the Second World War, based on the real experiences of children in the Holocaust. The story, narrated in a child’s voice, includes photographs and archival footage.

Director : Stephen Goodell

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 14

Language : English

Betrifft: Entjudung - Lohende Geschäfte

Participants: Arthur Lourie (Wien) Fried Barschak (UK) Franz Austerlitz Ilse Aschner Karl Gruber - שר החוץ אוסטרי בשנים 1945-1953 Karl & Kathr Krauss (USA) Sonja Oster (Wien)

Director : Kurt Langbein, Sandra Niterl

Production Year : 1988

Duration : 30

Language : German

The World At War - Inside The Reich, Germany 1940 - 1944

Episode in a 26-part documentary series that presents a detailed survey of World War II. Episode 16 - "Inside the Reich, Germany 1940-1944" In the summer of 1940 the German forces are occupying western Europe, and on the home front the feeling is that the war is over. Cities of Germany are not hit at all and there is no plan for an extended struggle. The Nazi regime that seeks to ensure its popularity takes pains that all the goods of peace time can be found in the stores. This is a very happy time for the Germans and a short time after it many babies were born in Germany. Includes archival films and...

Director : Philip Whitehead

Production Year : 1974

Duration : 52

Language : English

The Tin Drum

Ironic satire based on The Tin Drum, a book by Nobel Prize Winning author Gunter Grass. "The Tin Drum" tells about Oscar, a child in Danzig at the end of the 1920s who decides to stop growing as a protest against the rise of Nazism and chooses to express himself only through shouting and banging on his tin drum. Winner of a number of international cinema prizes, among them an Academy Award for "Best Foreign Film".

Director : Volker Schlöndorff

Production Year : 1979

Duration : 145

Language : German

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