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. HISTORY page 84 ti Cr) c3) ti