查理.卓別林自導自演的第一部有聲片,此片拍攝於希特勒氣焰最為囂張之時,片中對希特勒大加諷刺的情節顯示了其道德勇氣可嘉的一面。劇情描述猶太人理髮師查理,因為獨裁者興傑爾對猶太人下達了逮捕令而東躲西藏。不料在奧國邊境時,卻被駐守在那裏的德軍誤認為他就是興傑爾,於是他趁機作了一場維護民主主義的大演說。該片並不是卓別林的傑作,理髮匠部分平平無奇,獨裁者部分則有淋漓暢快的效果,尤以地球舞一場令人歎為觀止。最後的演說內容精彩,但表現方式值得商確。
波蘭華沙有一個劇團,其中有一名演員Bronski極其擅長模仿德國納粹領袖希特勒。Maria Tura和Joseph Tura是劇團裡的一對夫妻,劇團最近正在上演《哈姆雷特》。演出間隙,Maria收到了一束鮮花,來自一個年輕的飛行員Stanislav Sobinski,趁著Joseph在舞台上念著名台詞「to be or not to be」的時候,她安排Sobinski進了後台,兩人情愫暗生。然而不久後,納粹侵略波蘭,Sobinski只能前往作戰。Sobinski所在隊伍的領導是Siletsky教授,Sobinski想讓Siletsky幫忙帶封信給Maria,然而Siletsky卻連著名女演員Maria都不認識,於是Sobinski開始對Siletsky產生了懷疑。Sobinski為了追蹤Siletsky又回到華沙。而另一方面,Maria卻被兩個納粹士兵帶去見Siletsky,Siletsky對Maria也是心生愛慕,更希望Maria成為納粹在波蘭的間諜。Maria藉故逃回家,卻在家中意外的碰到了Sobinski和她的丈夫Josef,這段三角關係該如何收場,他們又要如何聯手對抗納粹?
Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad, so they turn to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, and ask him for a loan.
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.
關於一個年輕猶太男孩的故事。他的父母將他送到歐洲的親戚家,以避免反猶太人的迫害,這個男孩的親戚突然死了,他必須在一個對他充滿敵意的危險野外世界裡逃亡、獨自謀生,他遇到各式各樣的人,使觀眾從社會和歷史的不同角度反思邊緣人物的荒誕行為。
"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.
In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
Nagyvárad, Hungary, 1944. From February to June, Eva Heyman, a 13-year-old Jewish girl, wrote a diary describing the harsh conditions of her life under Nazi occupation. How would she have told her story if she had used Instagram?
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.
Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, their romance turns into a struggle for survival.
In a small east-european ghetto, the Jewish family is celebrating Easter. The fraternal dissonance between the Sigoulim brothers pretty accurately mirrors the strife between the two powers, one surrounding Samuel, a devoted rabbi, and the other around Moïse, a talented money lender. Moïse becomes the king of petrol and ships to London with his niece Lia. Conflict continues and leads to the violent strike by oilworkers...
The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division, destruction and mass murder thanks to the testimony of survivors and the discovery of a ten-minute film shot by Polish amateur filmmaker Alfons Ziółkowski in 1941.
In March 1943, twenty-year-old Ovadia Baruch was deported together with his family from Greece to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Upon arrival, his extended family was sent to the gas chambers. Ovadia struggled to survive until his liberation from the Mauthausen concentration camp in May 1945. While in Auschwitz, Ovadia met Aliza Tzarfati, a young Jewish woman from his hometown, and the two developed a loving relationship despite inhuman conditions. This film depicts their remarkable, touching story of love and survival in Auschwitz, a miraculous meeting after the Holocaust and the home they built together in Israel. This film is part of the "Witnesses and Education" project, a joint production of the International School for Holocaust Studies and the Multimedia Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In this series, survivors recount their life stores - before, during and after the Holocaust. Each title is filmed on location, where the events originally transpired.
In the nineteenth century a young Jewish woman living in the part of Poland controlled by Austria, meets an Austrian Count at a ball held by one of her father's business associates. After he rescues her from the unwanted attentions of a Polish army officer, they fall in love.
The Polish city of Lodz was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entire duration of WWII. The segregation of the Jewish population into the ghetto, and the subsequent horrors of the occupation are vividly chronicled through newsreels and photographs. The narration is taken almost entirely from journals and diaries of those who lived--and died--through the course of the occupation, with the number of different narrators diminishing over the course of the film, symbolic of the death of each narrator.
As curfew approaches, an everyday heroine risks it all in a smuggling operation from Nazi-occupied Poland.