- Summary
- The little-known story of Kurt Weill, Max Reinhardt, and Meyer Weisgal's operatic Jewish response to Hitler's Germany. The program chronicles the fascinating history of the creation and production of the opera, 'The Eternal Road', during the time when Nazi persecution of the Jews was spreading across Europe in the late 1930s. It was an artistic quest to create an opera that reflected the plight of the Jews in the final days leading up to the Holocaust.
- Other Title
- Weg der Verheissung.
Eternal road.
- Format
- Video
- Published
- West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [2011]
- Locale
- Germany
Chemnitz
- Other Authors/Editors
- Reinhardt, Max, 1873-1943.
Frank, Ron.
Lazar, Phyllis.
Weisgal, Meyer Wolfe, 1894-1977.
Werfel, Franz, 1890-1945.
Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950.
Frank Productions.
Kultur International Films.
- Notes
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Title from container.
Originally released in 2000.
Edited by Ron Frank.
DVD; region 1; NTSC; aspect ratio 4:3, full screen; Dolby 2.0.
