Cinetrā
Cinetrā
Cinetrā
They knew their words would reach you.
The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation of the Jewish population into the ghetto, and the subsequent horrors are vividly chronicled via 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 as the film progresses, symbolic of the death of each narrator.
Chicago International Film Festival 1988
Berlin International Film Festival 1989
Cast: Jerzy Kosiński, Theodore Bikel, Julie Cohen, Barbara Rosenblat, Nicholas Kepros, David Warrilow, Lynn Cohen, Frederick Neumann, Jerry Matz, Gregory Gordon, Eva Wellisz, Sam Tsoutsouvas
Writer: Alan Adelson (Writer)
Cinematographer: Eugene Squires, Józef Piwkowski
Editor: Kate Taverna
Composer: Wendy Blackstone
Producer: Stephen Samuels
Production: Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The National Endowment for the Humanities
