A documentary about the Holocaust and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising based on contemporary German film footage and survivor testimony.

DVD label: Editions Montparnasse
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DVD runtime(s) (main feature and extras): 01:18:00

https://nitro.download/view/A085E75639259E8/Frederic_Rossif_-_Le_temps_du_ghetto.rar

Language(s):French
Subtitles:None

The post Frédéric Rossif – Le Temps du ghetto (1961) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

This is a rather remarkable documentary made by left-wing filmmaker Leo Hurwitz and his wife, Peggy Lawson. This copy was made available on the Eastman Museum website.

Here’s how Hurwitz’s official website describes the film:
The result of a commission from Film Polski, the Polish Film Production Agency, to make a film on the concentration camps, The Museum and the Fury was made with access to the Film Polski archive, out of which Hurwitz integrated wartime footage with images of the reconstruction of Poland and various works of art. Centering on the museum of the concentration camps at Auschwitz, it begins as a historical survey exploring the function of a museum, establishing the kinship of all art, and stating that “art is man’s way of remembering his experience.” Along with the use of archival actuality and enacted footage, Hurwitz used the technique of photo-animation — a moving camera over still images, now used in many films — for the first time in the U.S. This study of war, art, memory and genocide is one of Hurwitz’s most concise and powerful films.

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Language(s):English
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The post Leo Hurwitz & Peggy Lawson – The Museum and the Fury (1956) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Primo Levi’s modern day odyssey from the concentration camp to his home in Italy. The Truce is a film about homecoming.

The horror and the suffering of the concentration camps has been well documented. What interested the director, Francesco Rosi, was to bring to the screen what Levi succeeded in doing so extraordinarily well in his book: recounting, through the tales of his remarkable adventures, the process of reawakening, of coming back to life, and of the re-acquisition of hope, through the experience of daily events, small and large, natural and joyous, the cumulative effect of which is to constantly affirm the superiority of love over death.

I would like to believe in something,
something beyond the death that undid you.
I would like to describe the intensity
with which, already overwhelmed,
we longed in those days to be able
to walk together again
free beneath the sun.
[Primo Levi, 9 January 1946]

The.Truce.1997.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/F5BCAECADA95A47/The.Truce.1997.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post Francesco Rosi – La tregua AKA The Truce (1997) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The conceptual rigidity of Adamczewski’s film recalls the formal experiments of structural film in the 1970s. The care with which the film-maker handles her material has become rare in the digital age and for this reason deserves special attention. The tight cinematic framework into which Adamczewski forces the vigour of her research makes this film an extremely intense experience. It is the product of a generation determined to resist the right-wing movement in German society.

In quiet shots, Adamczewski shows us former “wild concentration camps” that were set up in Saxony, a former “stronghold of the labour movement”. “The spontaneously occupied community centres, workers’ sports clubs, barracks and factory buildings still exist today. Some are now restaurants, discount stores or simply fallow land, which seem harmless and interchangeable. […] Accompanying the film footage, which visualises present-day Saxony, the off-screen voice quotes various sources: administrative measures such as house searches, arrests, interrogations and confiscations, but also reports from former prisoners, newspaper articles and literary texts.” (Ute Adamczewski) (frauenfilmfest. com)

Zustand.und.Gelaende.German.2019.AC3.DOKU.DVDRip.x264-SAVASTANOS.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/BE768FA1D6F8EDC/Zustand.und.Gelaende.German.2019.AC3.DOKU.DVDRip.x264-SAVASTANOS.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:None

The post Ute Adamczewski – Zustand und Gelände AKA Status and Terrain (2019) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Claus Räfle’s “The Invisibles” tells the true story of four Jewish teenagers—Cioma Schönhaus (Max Mauff), Hanni Lévy (Alice Dwyer), Ruth Arndt-Gumpel (Ruby O. Fee), Eugen Friede (Aaron Altaras)—who chose to remain in Berlin during the Holocaust. We are provided a title card which states that 7,000 Jewish people chose to stay in the city. Only 1,500 survived. For the most part, the film is a compelling docudrama, smooth and confident in juggling reenactments, interviews of actual survivors, and black-and-white footages—occasionally in color—of Nazi occupied Berlin. And yet, appropriately, it is not a sentimental or melodramatic picture. Instead, it aspires to be a grave reminder of a horrible past beyond imagination and an admonition of a potential future should we fail to learn from our history.(Cinéologist , letterboxd)

Die.Unsichtbaren.AKA.The.Invisibles.2017.576p.BluRay.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/270F00D46DB5C19/Die.Unsichtbaren.AKA.The.Invisibles.2017.576p.BluRay.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:German,English

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An investigation of the evidence for Hitler’s Final Solution, together with a dramatic reconstruction of key courtroom exchanges in the libel case lost by the historian David Irving, who was accused of being anti-Semitic and a Holocaust denier.

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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The incredible story of Israel’s rebirth – this landmark series is the masterpiece of Israeli documentaries and the crowning achievement of Israeli television.

Pillar of Fire relates the drama of the Jewish people’s return to Zion and the establishment of the state of Israel. It is an extensive documentary production that feature rare documentary footage collected from more than 30 archives and private collections throughout the world, as well as many eye-witness interviews. This documentary series also portrays the Jewish-Arab struggle for Palestine, persecution of Jews in Europe, the war of 1948 and David Ben-Gurion’s declaration of independence.

01 the jew returns – the arab awakens (1896 – 1920)
02 the dream (1914 – 1929)
03 the rise and fall of german jews (1919 – 1937)
04 who’s afraid of a jewish state (1937 – 1939)
05 holocaust (1939 – 1945)
06 exodus (1945 – 1947)
07 a nation reborn (1947 – 1948)

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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