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Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Buildings Concentration camps Europe Drowning victims Drowning victims Drama Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Camps de concentration Drame Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures Majdanek (Concentration camp) Buildings Women murderers Women murderers DramaFilter By Subjects
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Buildings Concentration camps Europe Drowning victims Drowning victims Drama Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Camps de concentration Drame Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures Majdanek (Concentration camp) Buildings Women murderers Women murderers DramaSummary: Marguerite Duras had already established herself as one of the major figures of postwar French literature when she launched an equally fascinating and unclassifiable career in cinema, translating her elliptical, experimental style to the screen through the unprecedented fusion of hypnotic, highly stylized imagery and radically disjunctive sound. Boldly reimagining the possibilities of dialogue,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INDSummary: A Paris housewife begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BELSummary: 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
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIGSummary: Three generations of women, all with the same name, rid themselves of their unwanted husbands one by one and each in the same way: they drown them. The local coroner agrees to declare each of the deaths accidental in return for sexual favors. But when things don't go exactly as planned, he devises a final game that could result in the undoing of them all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015