This is one of Palestine's earliest sound films and part of a larger campaign to encourage settlement and investment in "the Jewish homeland." Land of Promise emphasizes secular accomplishments and portrays Zionist settlers with considerable cinematographic and editorial skill. Punctuated by evocative close-ups, this part-documentary, part-travelogue, part-message film shows Pa...
Late 1940s. Mikhail Krasnitsky leads a quiet life near Rostov with his beloved wife Riva. When the firstborn of Michael and Riva dies, the hero takes it as a sign from above. Under the pretext of business trips, the hero begins to travel around the cities of the USSR, where, in cold blood, for an unclear reason, he commits murders. Investigator UGRO captain Smolov manages to co...
One of the last Yiddish films made in Poland before the Nazi invasion, this film tells the story of a mother's persistent struggles to support her three children in pre-war World War II Polish Ukraine. After her family is pulled apart by severe poverty and the turmoil of war, she and her children make their way to New York and turn to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society for help.
à la fin du XIXe siècle, une épidémie de cholera éclate dans le petit village de Glubsk, parce que des jeunes filles se sont baignées dans un cours d'eau pollué.
Film restauré par le National Center for Jewish Film
Judit Elek’s oeuvre doesn’t consist of films alone. There are also some books – not many, but all of great importance and value. An early novella aside, these books are usually documentation that provide the historical materials several of her main works are based on, above all the trial against Ignác Martinovics in The Trial of Martinovics and the Hungarian Jacobins (1981), an...
AUF DER SUCHE NACH DEM GEDCHTNIS (orig. IN SEARCH OF MEMORY) erzhlt die Lebensgeschichte von Eric Kandel, dem Nobelpreistrger für Medizin und einem der bedeutendsten Hirnforscher des 20. Jahrhunderts. Nach der Flucht 1939 aus seinem Heimatland sterreich und der Emigration nach Amerika, studierte er sterreichische Literatur, wurde spter Psychoanalytiker und Mediziner und i...
The incredible story of Avraham Sutskever, the greatest Yiddish poet, who saved manuscripts from the Nazis, survived WWII due to Stalin's special rescue plane, testified in the Nuremberg Trials, and died anonymously in Tel Aviv.
