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Berlin (Germany) History 1945-1990 Drama Cauchy, Daniel 1930- Interviews Espionage Drama Ex-convicts Drama Gambling Drama Melville, Jean-Pierre 1917-1973 Interviews Microfilms Drama Pickpockets Drama Security classification (Government documents) Drama World War, 1939-1945 Germany Berlin DramaFilter By Subjects
Berlin (Germany) History 1945-1990 Drama Cauchy, Daniel 1930- Interviews Espionage Drama Ex-convicts Drama Gambling Drama Melville, Jean-Pierre 1917-1973 Interviews Microfilms Drama Pickpockets Drama Security classification (Government documents) Drama World War, 1939-1945 Germany Berlin DramaSummary: Set in a rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about post-World War II Jewish identity. After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret performer, her face disfigured and reconstructed, returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out the gentile husband who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis. Without recognizing her, he enlists her to play his wife in a bizarre...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PHOSummary: Petty crook Skip McCoy has his eye set on the big score. When the three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy, he finds a haul bigger than he ever could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. secrets. Tailed by the Feds and the unwitting courier's Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PICSummary: Bob the gambler and his friends learn that the Deauville Casino expects to pull in 800 million francs. On the night of the heist Bob plays the casino tables until the appointed time. Before the dawn breaks, some of the men and women will win, some will lose, and some will die.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2002