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Beaches France Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Camps de concentration Drame Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures Motion picture producers and directors Motion picture producers and directors France Biography Motion pictures Great Britain Varda, Agnès 1928-2019 Working class Great Britain Drama Youth Great Britain DramaFilter By Subjects
Beaches France Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Camps de concentration Drame Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures Motion picture producers and directors Motion picture producers and directors France Biography Motion pictures Great Britain Varda, Agnès 1928-2019 Working class Great Britain Drama Youth Great Britain DramaSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIGSummary: "A reflection on art, life, and the movies. ... [A] richly cinematic self portrait that touches on everything from the feminist movement and the Black Panthers to the films of husband Jacques Demy and the birth of the French New Wave."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEASummary: Free Cinema consisted of a group of young film-makers who decided to rebel against the stifling conformity of British cinema in the late fifties and to make their own films outside the confines of 'the system'. This 50th-anniversary compilation of short films about British working class life shows directors expressing personal viewpoints without obligation to subscribe to the technical or...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Multimedia 2007