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Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
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Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah

directed by Adam Benzine, 1982-; produced by Adam Benzine, 1982-, Jet Black Iris Productions (Sausalito, CA: Film Platform, 2015), 40 mins
In 1973, French journalist Claude Lanzmann began work on a film about the Holocaust that ranks among the greatest documentaries ever created. In SPECTRES OF THE SHOAH, the iconoclast opens up for the first time about the trials he faced while creating his magnum opus and the weight it left him carrying. In additio...
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Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah

directed by Adam Benzine, 1982-; produced by Adam Benzine, 1982-, Jet Black Iris Productions (Sausalito, CA: Film Platform, 2015), 40 mins
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In 1973, French journalist Claude Lanzmann began work on a film about the Holocaust that ranks among the greatest documentaries ever created. In SPECTRES OF THE SHOAH, the iconoclast opens up for the first time about the trials he faced while creating his magnum opus and the weight it left him carrying. In addition to his years spent tracking down Nazi officials and traumatized death camp survivors, the filmmaker – who passed away in 2018 – a... In 1973, French journalist Claude Lanzmann began work on a film about the Holocaust that ranks among the greatest documentaries ever created. In SPECTRES OF THE SHOAH, the iconoclast opens up for the first time about the trials he faced while creating his magnum opus and the weight it left him carrying. In addition to his years spent tracking down Nazi officials and traumatized death camp survivors, the filmmaker – who passed away in 2018 – also discusses his teenage years fighting in the French Resistance, his relationship with existential philosophers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, and his hopes for the future. Show more Show less
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Adam Benzine, 1982-, Jet Black Iris Productions
Author / Creator
Adam Benzine, 1982-
Date Published / Released
2015
Publisher
Film Platform
Speaker / Narrator
Claude Lanzmann, 1925-2018
Person Discussed
Claude Lanzmann, 1925-2018
Topic / Theme
Holocaust, 1939-1945, War and Violence, Jews
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Copyright © 2015 Film Platform
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Defiant Requiem
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Defiant Requiem

directed by Doug Shultz, fl. 2000; produced by Peter Schnall, fl. 1980-2017 and Doug Shultz, fl. 2000, Milk and Honey Pictures and Partisan Pictures (United Kingdom: Content Media Corporation, 2012), 1 hour 26 mins

Defiant Requiem illuminates the extraordinary, untold story of the brave acts of resistance by the Jewish prisoners at Terezín during World War II.

It tells the remarkable story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant young Czech opera-choral conductor who was arrested and sent to Terezín in 1941. His most extraordina...

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Defiant Requiem

directed by Doug Shultz, fl. 2000; produced by Peter Schnall, fl. 1980-2017 and Doug Shultz, fl. 2000, Milk and Honey Pictures and Partisan Pictures (United Kingdom: Content Media Corporation, 2012), 1 hour 26 mins
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Defiant Requiem illuminates the extraordinary, untold story of the brave acts of resistance by the Jewish prisoners at Terezín during World War II.

It tells the remarkable story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant young Czech opera-choral conductor who was arrested and sent to Terezín in 1941. His most extraordinary act was to recruit 150 prisoners and teach them the Verdi Requiem by rote in a dank cellar using a smuggled score, after grueling da...

Defiant Requiem illuminates the extraordinary, untold story of the brave acts of resistance by the Jewish prisoners at Terezín during World War II.

It tells the remarkable story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant young Czech opera-choral conductor who was arrested and sent to Terezín in 1941. His most extraordinary act was to recruit 150 prisoners and teach them the Verdi Requiem by rote in a dank cellar using a smuggled score, after grueling days of forced labor. The Requiem was performed on sixteen occasions for fellow prisoners. The last, most infamous performance occurred on June 23, 1944. With only sixty prisoner-singers remaining following massive deportations, Schächter was ordered by the Nazi camp commander to perform the Requiem before high-ranking SS officers from Berlin and the International Red Cross to support the charade that the prisoners were well treated and flourishing.

Defiant Requiem is about how a rare form of courage, hope, and survival sparked an entirely unique method of fighting Nazi oppression, enabling the prisoners to maintain their dignity and humanity while battling the worst of mankind with the best of mankind. The Latin liturgy of the Requiem which highlights God’s ultimate judgment of the wicked, allowed the prisoners to sing to the Nazis what they dared not say. The Nazi legacy of brutality is well established, but the Terezín legacy is virtually unknown and is told dramatically in Defiant Requiem.

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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Peter Schnall, fl. 1980-2017, Doug Shultz, fl. 2000, Milk and Honey Pictures, Partisan Pictures, Bebe Neuwirth, 1958-
Author / Creator
Doug Shultz, fl. 2000
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
Content Media Corporation
Speaker / Narrator
Bebe Neuwirth, 1958-
Person Discussed
Rafael Schächter, 1905-1945
Topic / Theme
Revolution and Protest context, Nazi regime in Germany, 1933-1945, Nazism, Prisoners of war, Internment camps, World War II, 1939-1945, Holocaust, 1939-1945, War and Violence, The Arts, History, Jews, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2012 Content Media
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Return to Bosnia
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Return to Bosnia

directed by Wes Greene, fl. 2012-2016; produced by David Corlett, fl. 2003-2018, Nalu Productions (Paris, Ile-de-France: Windrose (Film distributor), 2016), 54 mins
25 years after fleeing the civil war in Bosnia (1992-1995), Damir Mitric returns to uncover this trauma. He meets with family, friends, and those working to rebuild a nation borne of ethnic and religious divisions. From Sarajevo, his childhood home where Serbians established a siege to a former concentration camp...
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Return to Bosnia

directed by Wes Greene, fl. 2012-2016; produced by David Corlett, fl. 2003-2018, Nalu Productions (Paris, Ile-de-France: Windrose (Film distributor), 2016), 54 mins
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25 years after fleeing the civil war in Bosnia (1992-1995), Damir Mitric returns to uncover this trauma. He meets with family, friends, and those working to rebuild a nation borne of ethnic and religious divisions. From Sarajevo, his childhood home where Serbians established a siege to a former concentration camp and to mass graves unveiling the ethnic cleansing of Bosnians by Serbians, Mitric confronts the incomprehensible: How could your neighb... 25 years after fleeing the civil war in Bosnia (1992-1995), Damir Mitric returns to uncover this trauma. He meets with family, friends, and those working to rebuild a nation borne of ethnic and religious divisions. From Sarajevo, his childhood home where Serbians established a siege to a former concentration camp and to mass graves unveiling the ethnic cleansing of Bosnians by Serbians, Mitric confronts the incomprehensible: How could your neighbours turn into killers? How can you rebuild lives and communities devastated by violence? Show more Show less
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
David Corlett, fl. 2003-2018, Nalu Productions
Author / Creator
Wes Greene, fl. 2012-2016
Date Published / Released
2016
Publisher
Windrose (Film distributor)
Speaker / Narrator
Damir Mitric, fl. 2009-2018
Person Discussed
Damir Mitric, fl. 2009-2018
Topic / Theme
Bulgaria, Macedonia, and the Balkans Borders, Ethnic cleansing, Ethnic conflict, War victims, Bosnian War, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-1995, Bosnian Genocide, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-1995, War and Violence, Family and Culture, Sociology, History, Bosnians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Yolande or The Scars of the Silence
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Yolande or The Scars of the Silence

directed by Léandre-Alain Baker, 1960-; produced by Angèle Diabang, 1979- and Rufin Mbou Mikima, 1980-, Les Films du Paquebot, Inzo Ya Bizizi and Cinaps TV (Paris, Ile-de-France: Windrose (Film distributor), 2015), 50 mins
Yolande Mukagasana, wife of a high-ranking Tutsi official, lost her husband and children during the Rwandan genocide in 1984. She makes us relive the first morning of horror and the atrocities that follow. This courageous woman can't stop there: after 16 years spent in Belgium in exile, she comes back to her count...
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Yolande or The Scars of the Silence

directed by Léandre-Alain Baker, 1960-; produced by Angèle Diabang, 1979- and Rufin Mbou Mikima, 1980-, Les Films du Paquebot, Inzo Ya Bizizi and Cinaps TV (Paris, Ile-de-France: Windrose (Film distributor), 2015), 50 mins
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Yolande Mukagasana, wife of a high-ranking Tutsi official, lost her husband and children during the Rwandan genocide in 1984. She makes us relive the first morning of horror and the atrocities that follow. This courageous woman can't stop there: after 16 years spent in Belgium in exile, she comes back to her country and makes the people talk about their traumas to rebuild a society still deeply affected by the genocide.
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Angèle Diabang, 1979-, Rufin Mbou Mikima, 1980-, Les Films du Paquebot, Inzo Ya Bizizi, Cinaps TV
Author / Creator
Léandre-Alain Baker, 1960-
Date Published / Released
2015
Publisher
Windrose (Film distributor)
Topic / Theme
The Congo and its Borders, Genocide, Genocide victims, Ethnic cleansing, Human rights, Rwandan Civil War and Genocide, April 7–July 15, 1994, Post Genocide Rwanda, 1994-, War and Violence, History, Sociology, Hutu, Tutsi, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Copyright © 2015 Les Films du Paquebot. All Rights Reserved.
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