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Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Buildings Concentration camps Europe Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Camps de concentration Drame Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures Majdanek (Concentration camp) Buildings Motion pictures France 20th century New wave films France 20th century Short films France World War, 1939-1945 Concentration campsSummary: Starting in the mid-1950s, a group of talented young filmmakers presented a radically new vision of French cinema. Dubbed the "Young Turks" by Cahiers du Cinéma co-founder André Bazin, they overturned the studio-based industry of the day, creating films that were modern, political... and funny. The group included François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer, and more. The short...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EARSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003