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Documentary film that tells the story of Henryk Vogler an author and Shoah survivor native of Krakow (Cracow) Poland. Henryk became a writer. The film was made by his son Pavel Vogler, an artist who was born in Krakow after the war and immigrated to USA. Pavel's daughter is heard in the film, asking her grandfather questions about his life story. The film includes archival films and photographs, testimony of Henryk, drwaings and dramatic re-encatments.

Director : Pavel Vogler

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 23

Language : English

A life with a suitcase - The Memories of Angelika Schronsdorff

The documentary deals with the life of Angelika Schrobsdorff, an Israeli writer with German origins.

Director : Irmgard Von Zur Muehlen

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 78

Language : German

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

Neither Memory Nor Magic - The Life and Times of Miklos Radnoti

In the spring of 1946, a mass grave was unearthed in the Hungarian village of Abda. Twenty-two decayed bodies were found sprawled in the pit. One of the bodies found in the grave was that of the poet Miklos Radnoti, shot into the grave by Hungarian fascists eighteen months earlier. Found in the front pocket of his coat was a small notebook soaked in his bodily fluids. It was laid out to dry in the sunlight and when examined later revealed the poets last poems carefully handwritten onto the ruled lines of the notebook. In the so-called Bor Notebook, Radnoti, through poetry, told the story of the last six months...

Director : Hugo Perez

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 70

Language : English

Radnóty

Director : Eduard Schreiber

Production Year : 1985

Duration : 16

Language : German, Hungarian

The Garden that Floated Away

בישראל, הסופרת אידה פינק רק מתחילה לזכות להכרה לה היא ראויה: היא כותבת את סיפוריה בפולנית ולכן נותרה אנונימית יחסית משך שנים רבות. בחו"ל, היא כבר קיבלה פרסים רבים, הביקורות מהללות את יצירתה וסיפרה "עקבות" אף צוין כאחד הספרים הבולטים של שנת 1997 ברשימה היוקרתית של ה"ניו-יורק טיימס", והיה ברשימת המומלצים שלו. סרט זה זורה אור על הסופרת, הכותבת במכונת כתיבה פולנית ישנה, בדירתה הצנועה בחולון, שם היא גרה מאז עלתה לישראל מפולין בשנת 1957.

Director : Ruth Walk

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 52

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Emotional Arithmetic

Based on the novel by canadian author, Matt Cohen, Emotional Arithmetic focuses on three Drancy internment camp survivors who are reunited for a summer “life changing” meal at a a farm in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. During their reunion, they try to deal with their emotional consequences, confront the past, reconcile their feelings about one another, and struggle to move on. Note: When released on DVD, the film's title differed from that of its theatrical release and was called Autumn Hearts: A New Beginning.

Director : Paolo Barzman

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 99

Language : English

Primo Levi - The Memory of the Offence

סרט תיעודי על הסופר האיטלקי-יהודי, ניצול אושוויץ, פרימו לוי. לוי, בן למשפחה שישבה דורות רבים במחוז פימונטה (Piedmont), סיים את לימודיו כדוקטור לכימיה ב-1943 על אף הקשיים בשל יהדותו. בעקבות נפילת מוסוליני (Mussolini) וכניעת ממשלת בדוליו (Badoglio) לבעלות הברית, השתלטו הגרמנים על רוב איטליה ולוי פנה להרים בצפון במטרה להצטרף ליחידת פרטיזנים אנטי פשיסטיים. אך בדצמבר 1943 נלכד בידי המיליציה הפשיסטית. לוי, שהודה בחקירתו שהוא יהודי, נשלח בפברואר 44 לאושוויץ (Auschwitz) שם היה אסיר כ-10 חודשים עד שחרור המחנה. לאחר שובו לביתו בטורינו (Torin) הוא חזר לעבודתו, הקים משפחה והתגורר בבית משפחתו הישן. ב-1947 כתב את ספרו הראשו

Director : Denys Blakeway

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 50

Language : English, Italian

The Dramas of Lajos Walder, Sidney Theatre, July 2007

Evening reading the poetry of the Jewish Hungarian poet and playwright Lajos Walder (1913-1945), in the Sidney Theatre, July 2007. He was first published in 1932 after turning to the editor of the Hungarian literary magazine 'Anonymous': "My name is Lajos Walder, poet, law student and weaving apprentice. For the proletarian I am a rotten bourgeois; for the bourgeoisie I am a stinking labourer; for the anarchist I am a cowardly bourgeois. And they are all right but I have written several wonderful pieces ... take them, eat them, read them and publish them; but first give me a cigarette ... I am broke." ...

Production Year : 2007

Language : English

Who Was Jerzy Kosinski?

This documentary explores the life of Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991), a Polish-American novelist, best known for his novels The Painted Bird (1965) and Being There (1971), and focusing on his one-time friend Jack Kuper, director of this film. Kuper wrote a memoir called Child of the Holocaust, a tale of a boy on the run during the Holocaust. When he read Kosinski’s The Painted Bird he suspected plagiarism of his book. Kuper traveled to Poland to find out if the renowned Holocaust novel was indeed Kosinski’s true story. What Kuper learned subsequently provided him with a denouement to his investigation.

Director : Jack Kuper

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 53

Language : English, Polish

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