WORLD WAR II/
HOLOCAUST
Alan and Naomi 1992. Directed
by Sterling Van Wagenen. With
Lukas Haas, Vanessa Zaoui,
Michael Gross. Based on the nov-
el by Myron Levoy. Coining of age
story of a 14-year-old Brooklyn boy
in 1944 who befriends a young
French-Jewish refuge who wit-
nessed Nazis murder her father.
Angry Harvest 1985. Directed
by Agnieszka Holland (see Eu-
ropa, Europa). With Armin
Mueller-Stahl (Shine), Elisabeth
Trissenaar. Holland's first film
since the martial law imposition
of her native Poland forced her ex-
ile to Sweden. A non-Jewish
farmer shelters a young Jewish
woman in Poland.
The Assault 1986. Directed by
Fons Rademakers. With Derek
De Lint, Marc Van Uchelen.
Based on novel by Harry Mulisch.
Winner of Best Foreign Film
Academy Award. Dutch boy wit-
nesses the murder of his family by
the Nazis, and years later meets
the perpetrators of the incident.
Au Revoir Les Enfants 1987.
Written and directed by Louis
Malle. With Gaspard Manesse,
Raphael Fejto, Francine Racette,
Irene Jacob. Based on an incident
in Malle's childhood, the story of
a Catholic boarding school head-
master in France who hides three
young Jewish boys among the stu-
dents.
Christabel 1989. Directed by
Dennis Potter. With Elizabeth
Hurley, Stephen Dillon. True sto-
ry of Christabel Bielenberg, a
British woman who struggled to
save her German husband from
Ravensbruck concentration camp.
Condensed from BBC miniseries.
Conspiracy of Hearts 1960. Di-
rected by Ralph Thomas. With Lil-
li Palmer, Yvonne Mitchell. Italian
nuns hide Jewish children in their
convent.
David 1979. Directed by Peter
Lilienthal. With Mario Fischel,
Walter Taub. Based on the novel
by Joel Koenig. First Holocaust
film made in Germany by a Ger-
man Jew. A Jewish teen-ager's
survival in Berlin.
Gleizer, Rene Hofschneider, Julie
Delpy. True story of Solomon Per-
el, a young Jew who escaped the
Holocaust by passing for German
at a Nazi-run academy. The Ger-
man government refused to sub-
mit it for the Academy Awards.
Day In October 1992. Directed
by Kenneth Madsen. With D.B.
Sweeney, Kelly Wolf, Tovah Feld-
shuh, Daniel Benzali. Danish film
based on historical fact of how
many Danish Jews were saved
from the Holocaust.
A Friendship in Vienna 1988.
Directed by Arthur Seidelman.
With Ed Asner, Jenny Lewish,
Jane Alexander. Based on the
book Devil in Vienna by Doris
Orgel. Made for cable. The friend-
ship between a Jewish teen-age
girl and the daughter of a Nazi col-
laborator.
-
Diamonds of the Night 1964.
Directed by Jan Nemec. With
Ladislav Jansky, Antonin Kum-
bera. Czech New Wave film of two
young men escaping their train to
Auschwitz and surviving in the
countryside.
Diary of Anne Frank 1959. Di-
rected by George Stevens. With
Millie Perkins, Joseph Schild-
kraut, Shelley Winters. Winner of
multiple Academy Awards, based
on the actual diary and Anne's fa-
ther's discovery of it following the
war.
The Garden of the Finzi-Con-
tinis 1971. Directed by Vittorio
De Sica. With Dominique Sanda,
Helmut Berger. Based on the nov-
el by Giorgio Bassani, who later
repudiated the film. Aristocratic
Italian Jewish family hides in
their "garden" world from the re-
alities of Nazi and fascist oppres-
sion.
Good Evening, Mr. Wallen-
berg 1993. Directed by Kjell
Grede. With Stellan Skarsgard,
Erland Josephson, Katharina
Thalbach. Story of Raoul Wallen-
berg, a Swedish non-
Jew who saved thousands of
Hungarian Jews from the Holo-
caust.
Hanna's War 1988. Written and
directed by Menahem Golan.
With Ellen Burstyn, Maruschka
Detmers, Denholm Elliott. True
story of Hanna Senesh, a young
Hungarian Jew living in Palestine
who, after volunteering for a sui-
cide mission behind Nazi lines, is
captured by the Germans.
Hiding Place 1975. Directed
by James F. Collier. With Julie
Harris, Eileen Heckart. Based on
Michael Moriarty, Fritz Weaver,
Meryl Streep, James Woods, To-
vah Feldshuh. Made-for-TV
miniseries account of the de-
struction of a Jewish family and
the prospering of a German fam-
ily under the Nazi regime.
In a Glass Cage 1986. Written
and directed by Agustin Villaron-
ga. With Gunter Meisner, David
Sust. Spanish film of a man's re-
venge on the Nazi who tortured
and molested him as a child. Ex-
tremely graphic.
Kapo 1959. Written and directed
by Gillo Pontecorvo. With Susan
Strasberg, Laurent Terzieff. A
Jewish girl in a concentration
camp, with the help of the camp
doctor, assumes a new identity,
rising to the position of camp
guard.
Korczak 1990. Directed by An-
PHOTO CO URTESY OF NATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWIS H FI LM
H
ere is a continuation
of just a sampling of
some of the Jewish-re-
lated films that are
available for rent or purchase on
video.
Of course, it might take a bit of
detective work to get your hands
on some of these; but they are out
there — somewhere.
We've attempted to make that
detective work just a little easier
for you by listing some sources.
The National Center of Jewish
Film at Brandeis University in
Boston has been extremely help-
ful in our research; I'm sure they
will be in yours, too.
View in good health!
The Dunera Boys 1985. Di-
rected by Sam Lewin. With Bob
Hoskins, Joe Spano. Viennese
Jews escape to England where
they are suspected to be German
spies.
Era Notte a Roma 1960. Di-
rected by Roberto Rossellini. One
young woman offers refuge for an
escaped American, Russian and
British soldier.
Europa Europa 1991. Written
and directed by Agnieszka Hol-
land (see Angry Harvest). With
Marco Hofschneider, Michele
Right: Molly Picon in the 1936 Yiddish
classic Yiddle with the Fiddle.
Below: Ben Kingsley portrays Simon
Wiesenthal in the made-for-cable film
Murderers Among Us: The Simon
Wiesenthal Story. While Wiesenthal was
visiting the set, the actor and the
humanitarian discovered they share the
same birthday (Dec. 31).
the book by Corrie Ten Boom and
produced by Billy Graham's Evan-
gelistic Association. True story of
two Dutch Christian
sisters who hid Jews and were
sent to concentration camps for it.
Holcroft Covenant 1985. Di-
rected by John Frankenheimer.
With Michael Caine, Victoria Ten-
nant. Based on the novel by
Robert Ludlum. A man's struggle
to open a fund his Nazi father set
up to relieve further sufferings of
Holocaust survivors.
Holocaust 1978. Directed by
Marvin J. Chomsky. With
drzej Wajda. Written by Agniesz-
ka Holland. With Wojtek
Pszoniak, Ewa Dalkowska. Pol-
ish film based on the life of Nazi
critic Janusz Korczak, who ran the
Jewish orphanage in Warsaw and
accompanied 200 children to Tre-
blinka.
Ladies' Tailor 1990. Directed by
Leonid Gorovets. Soviet film re-
counting the events of the execu-
tion of 96,000 Jews by the
Germans at Babi Yar, and its ef-
fects on one Russian family and
the tailor's family they are living
with.
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