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Samy Halfon
Series
Criterion collection volume 197
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.
Series
Criterion collection volume 197
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Filmed in 1955 at Auschwitz, combines newsreels and stills to tell the story of the Holocaust and man's inhumanity.
4) L'immortelle
Publisher
Redemption Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
N, a Frenchman traveling in Istanbul, meets a beautiful, secretive woman who may or may not be involved in a ring dealing in kidnapped women being used as prostitutes. After several days of their sadly passionate relationship she disappears, leaving N to retrace their steps throughout the city and interrogate several people they came into contact with. He finds her again and then she suddenly dies in a fatal car wreck, leading N to retrace his steps...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.