Shoah (1985)
Gênero : Documentário, História
Runtime : 9H 28M
Director : Claude Lanzmann
Sinopse
Claude Lanzmann dirigiu este documentário de 9 horas e meia do Holocausto sem usar um único quadro de imagens de arquivo. Ele entrevista sobreviventes, testemunhas e ex-nazistas (a quem ele tinha que filmar secretamente, uma vez que eles só concordaram em ser entrevistados pelo áudio). Seu estilo de entrevista, pedindo os detalhes mais minuciosos é eficaz em somar esses detalhes para dar um retrato horripilante dos eventos do genocídio nazista. Ele também mostra, ou melhor, deixa mostrar alguns de seus assuntos, que o anti-semitismo que causou a morte de 6 milhões de judeus no Holocausto ainda está vivo em muitas pessoas que ainda vivem na Alemanha, Polônia e outros lugares. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Em 1939, quando a Polónia é invadida pela Alemanha Nazi, o pianista Wladyslaw Szpilman interpretava peças clássicas numa rádio em Varsóvia. O jovem pianista irá então partilhar o drama do povo judeu, testemunhando a sua transferência forçada para o gueto de Varsóvia e, depois, para os campos de extermínio. Determinado a sobreviver, foge do gueto dias antes da grande revolta que os alemães esmagarão com sangue. Com a ajuda de membros da resistência polaca, viverá uma existência de fome, solidão e medo, entre os escombros de um mundo que colapsa ao seu redor.
O alemão Oskar Schindler viu na mão de obra judia uma solução barata e viável para lucrar com negócios durante a guerra. Com sua forte influência dentro do partido nazista, foi fácil conseguir as autorizações e abrir uma fábrica. O que poderia parecer uma atitude de um homem não muito bondoso, transformou-se em um dos maiores casos de amor à vida da História, pois este alemão abdicou de toda sua fortuna para salvar a vida de mais de mil judeus em plena luta contra o extermínio alemão.
Na Holanda ocupada pelos nazistas, Otto Frank e sua família decidiram se esconder, devido às crescentes perseguições contra os judeus. O empresário Kraler e seu assistente Miep preparam um esconderijo nos quartos que ficam em cima de seu local de trabalho, e combinam com os Franks e outra família, os Van Daan, para ficar lá. Mais tarde, a eles se junta o dentista Dussel. Juntos, eles tentam evitar serem detectados, enquanto esperam a Holanda ser libertada pelos Aliados. Por isso, satisfazer as necessidades básicas pode se tornar um desafio, e até mesmo pequenos incidentes poderiam apresentar um sério risco de serem descobertos. Baseado no diário de Anne Frank, e na peça de teatro que foi adaptado a partir dele.
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A filmmaker and his siblings research the experiences of their late father, who survived the Holocaust during World War II.
The story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a Nazi concentration camp for Jews during World War II, a metal box filled with documents is found. It was buried by an inmate Isaac Weiss in the year 1941. The professor finds out that his real parents, the Weiss's, gave him away to their friends, the Brankovs, just before they were taken into the camp. Inside the box there is an unfinished musical score, called "When day breaks", composed by the inmate Isaac Weiss. Searching for the truth about himself and his origins, Misha discovers the little-known truth about Judenlager Semlin camp, one of the worst Nazi execution sites in the heart of contemporary Belgrade. At the same time, the professor's obsession is to complete the composition, started by his father, and to perform it on the site of the former camp... which he, after many vicissitudes, finally succeeds.
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Dois irmãos estão tentando descobrir a verdade de anos atrás. A cidade inteira está contra eles.
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A filósofa Hannah Arendt e o marido fogem de campo de concentração nazista e se refugiam na América. Anos mais tarde, ela é convidada para cobrir o julgamento de Adolf Eichmann e escreve reportagens sobre o envolvimento de alemães e judeus na guerra.
The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust could happen again. The history of European Jewish culture and events before and during the Holocaust are seen in newsreels, photographs, and animated segments. The words of the victims of the era are read, and footage from the liberation os a concentration camp is shown.
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Mr. Mermelstein (Leonard Nimoy) and Mrs. Mermelstein (Blythe Danner) a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. He is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz, and she is a Southern Baptist from Tennessee. Their four children are good kids, typical Americans, with just enough orneriness to irritate each other, but enough love and class to pull together when it counts. When challenged by a hate group to prove that Jews were actually gassed at Auschwitz, Mel Mermelstein rises to the occasion with the support of his wife and children, in spite of the dangers to himself, his business, and his family. William John Cox (Dabney Coleman) provides legal help (pro bono) as a lawyer, originally a Roman Catholic from Texas.
Um lugar: Theresienstadt. Um lugar único de propaganda que Adolf Eichmann chamou de 'Gueto Modelo', projetado para enganar o mundo e o povo judeu em relação à sua natureza real, para ser o último passo antes da câmara de gás. Um homem: Benjamin Murmelstein, último presidente do Conselho Judeu de Theresienstadt, um herói caído condenado ao exílio, que foi forçado a negociar dia após dia de 1938 até o final da guerra com Eichmann, a cujo julgamento Murmelstein nem sequer foi chamado para testemunhar. Mesmo que ele fosse, sem dúvida, aquele que conhecia melhor o carrasco nazista. Mais de vinte e cinco anos depois de Shoah, o novo filme de Claude Lanzmann revela um aspecto pouco conhecido, mas fundamental, do Holocausto, e esclarece as origens da 'Solução Final' como nunca antes. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
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