The horrors of the Shoah, documented by Soviet cameramen
| Movie | |
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| German title | The horrors of the Shoah, documented by Soviet cameramen |
| Original title | Shoah, les Oubliés de l'Histoire |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 52 minutes |
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| Director | Véronique Lagoarde-Ségot |
| script | Véronique Lagoarde-Ségot |
| production | Sophie Faudel |
| music | Marc-Olivier Dupin |
| cut | Véronique Lagoarde-Ségot |
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The horror of the Shoah, documented by Soviet cameramen ( French Shoah, les Oubliés de l'Histoire ) is a documentary by Véronique Lagoarde-Ségot from the year 2014. The film conveys with footage of cameramen and war correspondents of the Red Army on the one hand, the propaganda Use of images to mobilize the war against National Socialist Germany, on the other hand it shows that the fate of the Jewish population was completely hidden in the Soviet cinema between 1940 and 1946. The original title of the film is Shoah, les Oubliés de l'Histoire ("The Shoah, the forgotten of history").
In addition to film material from Russian archives, material from the archives of the now independent states of Poland , Latvia , Lithuania and Ukraine is also used. The film shows how the Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide in the area of the former Soviet Union were hidden in the films produced by editing them. In order to prove the Jewish identity of the victims, film material from German Nazi war reporting is sometimes used.
action
The film is essentially structured chronologically. It shows examples of the implementation of the cameramen's assignment in the various phases of the Second World War . At the end of the film, scenes about the massacre in Babyn Yar are discussed .
Awards
- 2014, Toronto, best film
background
Around the same time as the film, an exhibition on Filmer la guerre: les soviétiques face à la Shoah (1941–1946) was organized in the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris .
Web links
- Greenfilm
- Shoah, les Oubliés de l'Histoire (eklektika.fr)
- Review at L´express.fr
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shoah, les Oubliés de l'Histoire - blog article on the film from February 2, 2016 (French); accessed on August 27, 2017
- ↑ Historical recordings - red camera ; Film report on sueddeutsche.de from November 9, 2015 about the broadcast on Arte ; accessed on August 27, 2017
- ^ Exhibition Filmer la guerre - Les Soviétiques face à la Shoah (1941-1946) in the Mémorial de la Shoah , Paris; Summary of the presentation (French); accessed on August 26, 2017