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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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Die jüdische Margerite : die sowjetischen Juden unter Gorbatschow (1989)

Grandits, Marijana

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Year of publication: 1989

Keywords: Gorbačëv, Michail S. ; Sowjetunion ; Geschichte 1985-1989 ; Juden

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The Jazzman from the Gulag (2000)

Sazonova, Natalia ; Salfati, Pierre-Henry

WDR

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Language: German

Pages: 58 Min.

Year of publication: 2000

Keywords: Rosner, Ady ; Sowjetunion ; Biographischer Film ; Dokumentarfilm ; Jazzmusiker ; Exil

Abstract: Die Dokumentation "The Jazzman from the Gulag" erzählt die außergewöhnliche Lebensgeschichte von Addi Rozner: Er war der erste Jazzmusiker der kommunistischen Welt, Wunderkind und einer der jüngsten Trompeter in Europa während der 20er Jahre. Armstrong selbst nannte ihn den "Weißen Armstrong". Es ist auch die Geschichte eines Mannes, der von den Nazis verfolgt wurde, weil er "entartete" Musik spielte, den Stalin zum Staatsmusiker ernannte, bevor er ihn in die Hölle des Gulag verbannte, und die des umherziehenden Juden, der durch die Jazzgeschichte, durch Europa und die Sowjetunion wanderte. Rozner hat viel erlebt: Ruhm, Exil, Grausamkeit und Armut. Zum ersten Mal wird durch diese Dokumentation das vergessene Leben dieser Persönlichkeit nachgezeichnet, die so viele faszinierende und bewegende Abenteuer erlebte. Die Dokumentation zeigt einzigartige Archivaufnahmen sowie Aussagen seiner Zeitgenossen, unter anderem ein Exklusivinterview mit Irina Prokofieva-Rozner, seiner Tochter, die die meisten seiner persönlichen Erinnerungen aufbewahrt hat.

Note: Mitschnitt: arte, 26.2.2012. - Orig.: Frankreich 1999 , Nur für den internen Gebrauch.

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His excellency (2007)

National Center for Jewish Film ; Roshal, Grigori

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Pages: 76 Min. , NTSC , s/w

Year of publication: 2007

Keywords: Sowjetunion ; Stummfilm

Abstract: His Excellency was the first Soviet-Jewish film to be produced after a demand by the Central Committee's Department for Agitprop that fictional films be made "... in a way that an be appreciated by millions." In the tradition of brilliant Soviet directors Eisenstein and Pudovkin, His Excellency features stylized cinematography and stars Leonid Leonidov, a star of the Moscow Art Theater, and in a small part, Nikolai Cherkasov, who would later play the lead roles in Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible. With J. Untershlak and Tamara Edelheim as Hirsh and Rivele Lekert, and the Moscow Art Theater's Leonid Leonidov as both the Tsar's governor and the community's rabbi. According to Director Roshel the subject matter of this film was so delicate that the Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment oversaw production of this film personally. The film is based on the life of Hirsch Lekert, a shoemaker and militant Jewish Labor Bund member, who attempted to assassinate the Vilna governor in 1902 to avenge the flogging of workers who participated in a May Day rally. Although the film was intended "as a tract against individualism,... a greater emphasis is placed on class stuggle within the Jewish community." Bourgeois Jewish Zionists find themselves pitted against fellow Jewish proletariats and the government.

Note: Orig.: UdSSR, 1928. - Engl. Zwischentitel

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Good-bye, UdSSR (1992)

Rodnyansky, Alexander

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Pages: 62 Min.

Year of publication: 1992

Parallel Title: Isolation oder Integration - Juden in Deutschland

Keywords: Sowjetunion

Note: Fernsehmitschnitt , Nur für den internen Gebrauch

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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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An appeal to the Jews of the world (2007)

National Center for Jewish Film

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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ISBN: 158587227x

Language: Russian

Pages: 6 Min. , s/w

Year of publication: 2007

Keywords: Michoėls, Solomon M. ; Markiš, Perec D. ; Ejzenstejn, Sergej M. ; Sowjetunion ; Antifaschismus

Abstract: In 1941, a group of the Soviet Union's most prominent Jewish writers and artists signed an appeal to Jews throughout the world, asking them to join the Soviet people "in the holy war against Fascism ... to destroy the enemy of humanity and of the Jewish people." The group included actor Solomon Mikhoels, poet Peretz Markish and film director Sergei Eisenstein. This newsreel footage captures their eloquent, impassioned appeals. Tragically, Mikhoels and Markish later fell victim to the Stalinist purges in the 1940s and '50s (Eisenstein died of natural causes in the 1940s.) This film stands as an important record of how the Soviet government relaxed its ethnic policies in order to appeal to anyone who could help fight fascism and the Nazis.

Note: Orig.: UdSSR, 1941. - Engl. Untertitel

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Ordinary Bolshevizm (1999)

Tsymbal, Yevgeni

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Language: Russian

Pages: 78 Minuten

Year of publication: 1999

Keywords: Sowjetunion ; Marxismus-Leninismus ; Dokumentarfilm

Note: Engl. Untertitel

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The king and the fool (1990)

Turisky, Yossi

Tel Aviv : Beit Hatfutsot Museum of the Jewish People

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Pages: 40 Min.

Year of publication: 1990

Keywords: Michoėls, Solomon M. ; Zuskin, Veniamin L. ; Sowjetunion ; Staatliches Jüdisches Theater ; Schauspieler

Abstract: The story of Shlomo Mikhoels and Benjamin Zuskin, the leading actors of the National Jewish Theater of Moscow

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L'Chaim - To life! (2007)

Mayer, Harold

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: English

Pages: 80 Min. , NTSC , s/w und Farbe

Year of publication: 2007

Keywords: Russland ; Sowjetunion ; World ORT Union

Abstract: Produced for the Women's American ORT and narrated by Eli Wallach, this highly acclaimed documentary describes more than a century of Jewish life in Russia. Stills and archival footage recreate the life of the Russian-Jewish community from the shtetl through the first World War, the Holocaust, the Warsaw Ghetto, the displaced persons camps and the establishment of the State of Israel. L'Chaim: To Life also examines the origins and activities of the ORT, a movement dedicated to the vocational training and education of the Jewish people.

Note: Original: USA, 1973

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