Film Emigration from Nazi Germany

A patient, sober archival reckoning: long static interviews that ask you to sit with testimony and memory rather than spectacle.

Created by

Günter Peter Straschek

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Hans Feld, Marta Feuchtwanger, Artur Gottlein

Overview

Based on extensive interviews, shot on 16mm in a series of static long takes, Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland, is one of the most fascinating examples of "Film history on film" ever produced. Straschek devoted years to researching the topic and accumulating both film and non-film materials. Apart from some radio features and articles, however, this 290-minute TV programme remains the only published trace of Straschek's lifelong work on the emigration of film personnel. He had intended to publish a three-volume book, encompassing all available data about 3,000 emigrants originating from the centre and peripheries of film production, but the book never materialised.

How it feels

Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Memory, war, isolation, art

Content

No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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