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The summer of 1945. Tadeusz, a former Home Army (AK) soldier who lost everything in the war, is journeying across Masuria. He arrives at the home of a German soldier's widow. Rose, who lives alone on a large farm, gives him a cool welcome but lets him stay the night. Tadeusz repays her by helping around the farm. Though she won't admit it, Rose needs protection from looters who keep coming to the farm. Gradually Tadeusz discovers the reasons for her solitude. Amidst a landscape ravaged by war, an impossible love is born between two people from distant worlds.

Director : Wojciech Smarzowski

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 94

Language : Polish

Zbrodnia Bez Kary

Documentary film dealing with the “Massacre in Katyn Forest” – Approximately 4,000 Polish officers, captured by the Soviets, were killed. The massacre was carried out in 1940 by the NKVD in Katyn Forest which is situated west of Smolensk. It was verified by the discovery of the bodies in a mass grave by the Germans in 1943. This caused accusations of guilt to be exchanged between the Soviets and the Germans. An investigation by US Congress in the 1950s revealed that the massacre was carried out by the secret Soviet police under instruction from the Soviet Government. Only in 1989, during the rule of...

Director : Anna Teresa Pietraszek

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 51

Language : Polish

במעבר

בתקופה הראשונה שלאחר מלחמת העולם השנייה, קבוצה גדולה של שבויי מלחמה גרמנים נשלחים למחנה סובייטי של אסירות, שמרבית הצוות בו מורכב מנשים. הסיבה לכך היא רצון השלטונות לנבור במסה האנושית על מנת לאתר בתוכה את קציני ה-SS המסתתרים כחלק מהחיילים הפשוטים, על מנת להביאם במהרה לעמוד התלייה כפושעי מלחמה. בראש צוות הנשים שאמורות לפתות ולהוציא מהם אינפורמציה עומדת רופאה מלאת כריזמה.

Director : Tom Robertson

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 108

Language : English

A Woman in Berlin aka Downfall Of Berlin

April 1945. The Red Army is invading Berlin. Women fall victim to rape in a half-destroyed house. One of them is Anonyma, who had been a journalist and photographer. In her desperation she decides to look for an officer who can protect her. What happens is what she had least been prepared for. A relationship develops with the Russian officer Andrej that would feel like love were it not for the barrier that keeps them enemies till the end.

Director : Max Färberböck

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 127

Language : German, Russian

Berlin

The historical chronicle of the last decisive battle with nazi Germany, the capture of Berlin and the unconditional surrender of German armed forces

Director : Yuli Reizman, Nikolay Shpikovsky

Production Year : 1945

Duration : 55

Language : Russian

The Liberation of Auschwitz, 1945

A doumentary series. The part is based on original fottages that were shot in Auschwitz by Soviet photographs between January 27th, 1945 and February 28th, 1945, the first month after the camp's liberation. Almost no editing was done, nor sound or music added. Alexander Vorontsov one of the Soviet photographs, participated in the shooting of the film.

Director : Irmgard Von Zur Muehlen

Production Year : 1986

Duration : 53

Language : English, German, Polish

Akasztottak

סרט קצר ובו מיצג אומנותי. אומן יוצר פסלי אנשים תלויים, כאלגוריה. ההיסטוריה של כל מדינה מלאה באנשים שהם פשוט תלויים. לא קדושים מעונים, לא גיבורים, אלא פשוט תלויים; הם לא היו מערכות, לא רוצחים, אלא קולבים. ההיסטוריה והגורל גורמים למישהו להיות מכור. פסלי אנדראז בורוץ '("תלויים", מוזיאון לאמנויות יפות, בודפשט) משדרים תחושה כללית זו. הסרט מנסה לעקוף את האמנה כדי להגדיר מחדש את החוויה הזו, אלא מבקש למצוא מקומות לזכות בחוויית התלייה ולחבר אותה למוזיקה של László Dés לפסלים. המחזה עוסק בחיים כמו מוות אלים, משחק וסבל, תמימות ורצח - הקרבנות של כל הזמנים. בלי הופעתם של שחקנים חיים, לסרט יש סיפור, לאנשים בו יש גורל,...

Director : Peter Gothar

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 24

The Forest Of Death of Zeithain

Discovery of mass graves of Soviet prisoners of war of the camps near Zeithain.

Director : Richard Groschopp

Production Year : 1946

Duration : 12

Language : German

I Was Nineteen

Based on personal experiments of director Konrad Wolf, this DEFA episodic drama tells a story of individual struggle to come to terms with his own past and identity. April 1945. 19 years old Gregor Hecker reaches the outskirts of Berlin as part of the Red Army's scouting team and having fled Germany with his family when he was 8, is forced to battle against men from his birth country. Through dealing with challenging situations, he grows more confident that not all hope is lost for post-war Germany. Made with the support of the Soviet Army and of the People's Army of the GDR.

Director : Konrad Wolf

Production Year : 1968

Duration : 115

Language : German, Russian

War of the Century, When Hitler Fought Stalin, part 3 - Learning to Win

Four-part documentary series looking at the conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War, containing new information and film footage (some of it colour footage). GB, BBC/History Channel/NDR co-production. 3 of 4: This programme chronicles the horrors of the Battle for Stalingrad in 1942, a turning point in the conflict between the two countries.

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 1999

Language : English, German, Russian

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