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Holocaust

Ida

Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski Produced by  Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzieciol & Ewa Puszczynska Written by Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz Released by Music Box Films Polish with English subtitles Poland/Denmark. 83 min. Rated PG-13 With Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik and Joanna Kulig Ida is an exquisitely beautiful road trip through the emotional consequences of […]

The Last of the Unjust

Directed by Claude Lanzmann Produced by David Frenkel, Jean Labadie & Danny Krausz Released by Cohen Media Group German, French and English, with English subtitles France/Austria. 218 min. Rated PG-13 Historical facts, interpretation, and blame are strikingly embodied by Benjamin Murmelstein. His singular life and experiences, during and after the Holocaust, have inspired magic realism […]

Aftermath

Written & Directed by Wladyslaw Pasikowski Produced by Dariusz Jablonski, Violetta Kaminska & Izabela Wojcik Released by Menemsha Films Polish with English subtitles Poland/Netherlands/Russia/Slovakia. 104 min. Not rated With Maciej Stuhr, Ireneusz Czop, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Zuzana Fialova, Andrzej Mastalerz, Zbigniew Zamachowski & Danuta Szaflarska Aftermath, an intense thriller, exposes the corrosive effect of collective silence and lies […]

No Place on Earth

Directed by Janet Tobias Produced by Tobias, Rafael Marmor, Paul Laikin, Nadav Schirman, Susan Barnett & Zita Kisgergely Written by Tobias & Paul Laikin Released by Magnolia Pictures UK/Germany/USA. 83 min. Rated PG-13 With Chris Nicola, Sima Dodyk, Sonia Dodyk, Sam Stermer, Saul Stermer, Kati Laban, Balázs Péter Kiss, Dániel Hegedus, and Balázs Barna Hidvégi […]

Six Million and One

Written, Produced & Directed by David Fisher Released by Nancy Fishman Film Releasing English, German & Hebrew with English subtitles Israel/Germany/Austria. 97 min. Not rated Six Million and One adds to the documentary canon of the Holocaust as it grapples with the repercussions and impact decades later on the next generation. A dozen years ago, […]