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Making a killing (1998)

Webber, Anne

London : Channel Four Television

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Language: English

Pages: 52 Min.

Year of publication: 1998

Keywords: Kunstraub ; Dokumentarfilm

Abstract: Dokumentarfilm über die Gutman Familie aus den Niederlanden, der die Nationalsozialisten u.a. das Bild "Landschaft mit Schornsteinen" geraubt haben.

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Seekers of hapiness (2007)

Korsch-Sabin, Vladimir

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: Russian

Pages: 84 Min. , NTSC

Year of publication: 2007

Keywords: Film ; Birobidschan

Abstract: During the late 1920s, many impoverished Jews searching for a better life made their way to Birobidzhan, the Soviet Jewish Autonomous Region on the Chinese border. This melodrama tells the story of a Jewish family's immigration to Birobidzhan and their experiences as settlers on a collective farm in the area. While the family encounters hardships in adjusting to this new way of life (including son-in-law Pinya's greedy, misguided search for gold) their search for assimilation is ultimately shown as positive. While the film is essentially a Soviet propaganda piece emphasizing the utopian dream of Birobidzhan as a socialist Jewish homeland, the reality of the area was harsh and inhospitable.

Note: Orig.: UdSSR 1934. - Engl. Untertitel

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Comrade Abram (2006)

Razumni, Alexander

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: English

Pages: 18 Min. , NTSC , s/w

Year of publication: 2006

Keywords: Sowjetunion ; Propagandafilm

Abstract: This short propaganda film (or agitka) tells the tale of a Jew who survives a pogrom and becomes a leader in the Red Army. Intended to indoctrinate Soviet citizens by showing heroic examples of conversion to the Revolutionary cause, the agitka ('agitation pieces') were originally screened on Russian 'film trains.' A rare portrait of a Jewish character in early Russian cinema.

Note: Orig.: UdSSR, 1919. - Engl. Zwischentitel

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The return of Nathan Becker (2009)

Michoėls, Solomon M. ; Ships, Boris ; Milman, Mark

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: Yiddish

Pages: 72 Min. , s/w

Year of publication: 2009

Keywords: Sowjetunion ; Arbeiter

Abstract: This rare, newly restored feature was originally advertised as "the first Yiddish talkie from Soviet Russia." The plot centers on Nathan Becker, a Jewish bricklayer who returns to Russia after twenty-eight years in America. After reuniting with his father (played with comic eccentricity by Solomon Mikhoels) Nathan leaves the shtetl to work in the new industrial center of Magnitogorsk. There, he soon finds that the work habits he acquired in America conflict with the Soviet system. While the film's resolution emphasizes the triumph of socialist productivity, the screenplay by Yiddish author Peretz Markish reflects the warmth and humor of the Jewish spirit.

Note: Orig.: USSR 1932. - Engl. Untertitel

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Children must laugh (2006)

Ford, Aleksander

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: English

Pages: 63 Min. , s/w

Year of publication: 2006

Keywords: Polen

Abstract: Directed by Lodz native Aleksander Ford and financed by the Jewish Labor movement in Poland, Children Must Laugh is one of the few surviving documentaries about Jewish life in Poland before WWII. This institutional film was produced to raise funds for the Vladimir Medem Sanitarium which, noted for its modern and spacious facilities, stood as the embodiment of health and enlightenment, in striking contrast to the grim images of urban Polish-Jewish poverty. The sanitarium's theme song, "Mir Kumen On (Here We Come)," punctuates the film with a sense of hope and accomplishment. The Bund's optimistic internationalism, exemplified by the children's endearing performances, permeates the film, creating powerful yet unintended ironies for post-Holocaust audiences.

Note: Orig.: PL 1935. - Engl. Untertitel

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From Philadelphia to the front (2005)

Gelles, Judy ; Bernstein, Marianne

[Waltham, Mass.] : National Center for Jewish Film

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ISBN: 1585872148

Language: English

Pages: 37 Min.

Year of publication: 2005

Keywords: Weltkrieg ; Soldat ; USA

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Dreamers and builders (2006)

Gross, Ya'akov

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: English

Pages: 50 Min. , NTSC , s/w

Year of publication: 2006

Keywords: Palästina ; Siedlung ; Zionismus

Abstract: Spectacular rare archival film footage of Palestine in the tumultuous 1920s forms the heart of this documentary by Israeli filmmaker and scholar Ya'akov Gross. Considered lost for more than 70 years, these early films taken by Ya'akov Ben Dov, the father of Hebrew cinema, depict settlements and activities in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Rishon le Zion and Old Jaffa; visits by Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill; the funeral of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda; and early Zionists who pioneered the Third and Fourth Aliyahs. A vital and accessible look at a formative period in Israeli history. Dreamers and Builders includes material from three rare films by Ya'akov Ben Dov: Return to Zion (1920-21), The Rebirth of a Nation (1923), and Romance of Palestine (1926) - preserved in a joint project by the National Center for Jewish Film and the Israel Film Archive.

Note: Orig.: Israel, 1996

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The inheritage (2009)

Mayer, Harold

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: English

Pages: 58 Min. , NTSC , s/w

Year of publication: 2009

Keywords: Einwanderung ; Dokumentarfilm ; USA

Abstract: This documentary, sponsored by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, chronicles the history of the garment workers from 1900 to 1964. Opening with the flood of immigrants that poured through Ellis Island in the early 1900s, the film goes on to unveil dim Lower East Side sweatshops, coal mines and textile mills filled with children, the battlefields of World War I, and the anxious years of the Depression. In this setting we see the immigrants struggle to become part of their new country and labor's brutal battle to organize into a united movement during the 1930s. Actual footage of the Memorial Day Massacre at Republic Steel brings the power of authenticity to these scenes. The film moves through World War II and the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, as each generation fights to preserve and expand its freedom.

Note: Orig.: USA, 1964

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Hungry hearts (2006)

Hopper, E. Mason ; Yezierska, Anzia

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: English

Pages: 84 Min. , NTSC , s/w

Year of publication: 2006

Keywords: New York, NY ; Stummfilm ; Einwanderung ; USA ; Osteuropäische Juden

Abstract: Based on the short stories of Anzia Yezierska, the first writer to bring stories of American Jewish women to a mainstream audience, Hungry Hearts focuses on the members of the Levin family who emigrate from Eastern Europe to New York City's Lower East Side. Abraham, the pious father learned in religion but uninterested in business, has difficulty making a living and adjusting to life in America. The daughter Sara scrubs floors in the tenement in order to earn money and "become a somebody." The mother Hannah, a noble matriarch, scrimps and saves to paint her dingy kitchen white only to have her landlord raise the rent because of the improvements. Filmed on location on the Lower East Side, this bittersweet classic captures the hopes and hardships of Jewish immigrants in the New World.

Note: Orig.: USA, 1922. - Engl. Zwischentitel

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The wandering Jew : or the life of Theodor Herzl (1921)

Kreisler, Otto

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: English

Pages: 1 DVD , Stumm , s/w

Year of publication: 1921

Keywords: Herzl, Theodor ; Stummfilm ; Biographischer Film ; Zionismus

Abstract: Rekonstruktion: The National Center for Jewish Film, Brandeis University, Waltham/Massachusetts Darsteller: Ernst Bath, Rudolph Schildkraut, Joseph Schildkraut, Josef Schreiter, Rudolf Dietz, Else Osterheim, Gita Lenart-Vago, Axel Plessen, Pippa Gettke Geschichte des Schriftstellers, Juristen und Begründers des politischen Zionismus, Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), mit Szenen aus der Geschichte der Juden (Kampf gegen die Philister, Spanische Inquisition, Pogrome in Rußland und Polen), die Herzls Sehnsucht nach einem eigenen Judenstaat begreiflich machen.

Note: Orig.: AT 1921. - Engl. Zwischentitel

URL: http://www.imdb.de/title/tt0956250/

URL: http://www.jfw.at/alte_jahre/1998/theodor_herzl.html

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