- Summary
- A forgotten classic and a film of passionate restraint, made by and about Jewish Displaced Persons. Produced in the American zone of occupied Germany in the aftermath of World War II, this first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish point of view has the power of a collective self-portrait. The young hero is deported in the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, jumps an Auschwitz-bound transport to take his chances in the countryside, and ultimately survives the war with a band of Jewish partisans to search for his family in the ruins of liberated Poland.
- Other Title
- Lang ist der weg.
- Format
- Video
- Published
- Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Film, [1995]
©1995
- Locale
- Germany
- Other Authors/Editors
- Külb, Karl Georg, 1901-1980.
Beker, Israel, 1917-2003.
Weinstein, Abraham.
Fredersdorf, Herbert B., 1899-1971.
Goldstein, Marek.
- Notes
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Originally released in 1946 as motion picture; restored and rereleased by the National Center for Jewish Film.
Originally released under title: Lang ist der weg.
Photographer, Franz Koch ; music, Lothar Brühne.
Israel Becker, Bettina Moissi, Bertha Litwina, Jacob Fischer, Otto Wernicke, Paul Dahlke, Alex Bardini, David Hart, Mischa Nathan, H.L. Fischer.
VHS format.
In Yiddish, German and Polish with English subtitles.
