Overview
- Summary
- The story of the surviving members of the Viennese Hakoah sports club women's swim team, a world-dominating competitor in the 1930s. The club was eventually shut down during Hitler's reign, though all the women managed to escape capture. Combines historical footage and contemporary interviews to reconnect the women's lives and memories.
- Variant Title
- Hakoah Lischot
- Format
- Video
- Published
- New York : Kino on Video, [2004]
©2004 - Locale
- Austria
Vienna - Edition
- Widescreen format
- Notes
-
Title and credits from container.
Originally produced as a documentary film in 2004.
Special features: additional interviews with the swimmers; extra scenes.
"Enhanced for 16x9 TVs"--Container.
Director of photography, Tom Hurwitz ; editing, Ruben Korenfeld and Yuval Sher.
Not rated
DVD; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Soundtrack in English, Hebrew and German; subtitles in English or Spanish.
Physical Details
- Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Vienna. Jews--Persecutions--Austria--Vienna. World War, 1939-1945--Austria. Swimmers--Austria--Vienna. Jewish athletes--Austria--Vienna. Women athletes--Austria--Vienna. Jewish women--Austria--Vienna. Documentary films. Nonfiction films. Video recordings.
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- 2024-06-21 18:15:00
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