Le dernier des injustes = The last of the unjust /
In 1975 Rome, Claude Lanzmann filmed a series of interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, the only "Elder of the Jews" not to have been killed during the war. A rabbi in Vienna, following the annexation o...
| Uniform Title: | Dernier des injustes (Motion picture) |
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| Other Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Video |
| Language: | German French |
| Language Notes: | French dialogue with English subtitles |
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[New York, New York] :
Cohen Film Collection,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Kanopy) |
| Summary: | In 1975 Rome, Claude Lanzmann filmed a series of interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, the only "Elder of the Jews" not to have been killed during the war. A rabbi in Vienna, following the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, Murmelstein fought bitterly with Adolf Eichmann, week after week for seven years, managing to help around 121,000 Jews leave the country, and preventing the liquidation of the ghetto. In 2012, Claude Lanzmann, at 87 exhumes these interviews shot in Rome, returning to Theresienstadt, the town "given to the Jews by Hitler", a so-called model ghetto, but a ghetto of deceit chosen by Adolf Eichmann to dupe the world. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frames. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (streaming video file) (219 minutes): .flv file, sound |
| Awards: | Awards: Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2013 ; Official Selection Toronto Film Festival 2013 ; Official Selection London Film Festival 2013 ; Official Selection New York Film Festival 2013 |
| Production Credits: | Directors of photography, William Lubtchansky, Caroline Champetier ; editor, Chantal Hymans. |