Skate to survive / director, Astra Burka ; producers, Michael Kainer & Astra Burka ; writer, Michale Kainer ; [in partnership with OMNI Television Independent Producers Initiative].

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: DVD-0895

Overview

Format: Video
Published: Jerusalem : Ruth Diskin Films Ltd., marketing & distribution, [2007?]
Locale: Canada
Netherlands
Other Authors/Editors: Burka, Astra, director, producer.
Kainer, Michael, screenwriter, producer.
Burka, Ellen, interviewee.
Bon, Elsbeth, interviewee.
Gasteren, Louis van, 1922- interviewee.
Mundinger, Peter, composer.
OMNI Television, producer.
Ruth Diskin Films (Firm), distributor.
Notes: Videodisc release of the documentary motion picture produced in 2007.

Aspect ratio 16:9.

"Skate to survive is a documentary about the artistry and struggle of Canadian figure skating coach and choreographer Ellen Burka. She recounts her life from pre-war Amsterdam, to Westerbork and Theresienstadt concentration camps, to Dutch national champion, to bohemian Toronto in the 1950s and finally world skating celebrity. The film shows how her enthusiasm and energy allowed her wildly creative side to survive and flourish despite the harsh realities around her."--Container.

Director of photography, Zoe Dirse; editor, Thomas Cooper; music, Peter Mundinger.

"[T]old by Ellen Burka, Elsbeth Bon, Louis van Gasteren."

DVD, NTSC, Region 1.

In English, German and Dutch with subtitles in English.

Language: English
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (48 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Subjects: Skating--Canada. Holocaust survivors--Canada--Biography. Skaters--Netherlands--Biography. Skaters--Canada--Biography. Skating--Netherlands. Video recordings. Biographies. Burka, Ellen.

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