Archival Spaces 314 Schächten (2022) Uploaded 3 February 2023 Marking Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 January), the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival under Hilary Helstein, in cooperation with the German and Austrian Consulates, mounted the L.A. premiere of a new Holocaust-themed film, Schächten (2022), which deals not so much with the Holocaust, but with its utterlyContinue reading “314: Holocaust Remembrance Day”
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303: Three Minutes. A Lengthening (2022)
Archival Spaces 303 Three Minutes. A Lengthening (2022) Uploaded 2 September 2022 In the Summer of 1990, after the fall of Communism, I visited Poland for the first time, training docents for a United States Information Agency exhibit on American cinema in Katowice. On a free day, I asked my driver to take me toContinue reading “303: Three Minutes. A Lengthening (2022)“
275: Marriage in the Shadows (1947)
Archival Spaces 275 Marriage in the Shadows (1947, Kurt Maetzig) Uploaded 6 August 2021 Although I have been studying German cinema for decades, I’m less familiar with films from the German Democratic Republic, simply because for a long time, it was just harder to see those films. The DEFA (Deutsche Film Aktiengesellschaft) was formed in 1946Continue reading “275: Marriage in the Shadows (1947)”
262: International Holocaust Day
Archival Spaces 262 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Uploaded 5 February 2021 On 1 November 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated 27 January as “International Holocaust Remembrance Day,” in order to commemorate the liberation by Soviet Russian forces of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau on 27 January 1945. According to the website of theContinue reading “262: International Holocaust Day”
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