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Borchert, Ernst Wilhelm 1907-1990 Concentration camp inmates Germany Drama Ex-Nazis Germany Drama Feature films Feature films Germany (East) Germany Social conditions 20th century Drama Motion picture producers and directors Germany Motion pictures Germany (East) Reconstruction (1939-1951) Germany Berlin Drama World War, 1939-1945 Psychological aspects DramaFilter By Subjects
Borchert, Ernst Wilhelm 1907-1990 Concentration camp inmates Germany Drama Ex-Nazis Germany Drama Feature films Feature films Germany (East) Germany Social conditions 20th century Drama Motion picture producers and directors Germany Motion pictures Germany (East) Reconstruction (1939-1951) Germany Berlin Drama World War, 1939-1945 Psychological aspects DramaSummary: Trapped in a Polish ghetto with thousands of other Jews facing starvation or deportation to the death camps, Jacob is detained one evening at the local Gestapo headquarters. Eavesdropping, he overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. At first he is silent, but circumstances compel him to pass on the good news of hope. A simple, somewhat dour man, the stubble-bearded Jacob...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Icestorm International 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JACSummary: In the aftermath of World War II, Susanne Wallner returns from a concentration camp to find that her Berlin apartment is occupied by Dr. Hans Mertens, a former officer in the German army who has been severely traumatized by the atrocities perpetrated by his superiors. The unlikely pair form a delicate friendship as they struggle to restore some normalcy to their hellishly bleak existence. By...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Icestorm International in association with the University of Massachusetts, c1999. 1999