Kindertransport - To a strange world

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Movie
German title Kindertransport - To a strange world
Original title Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2000
length 122 minutes
Rod
Director Mark Jonathan Harris
script Mark Jonathan Harris
production Deborah Oppenheimer
music Lee Holdridge
camera Don Lenzer
cut Kate Amend
occupation

Kindertransport - Into a Foreign World is an American documentary film from 2000. Mark Jonathan Harris was responsible for the direction and script . The film about the Kindertransporte from November 1938 to the beginning of the Second World War was awarded the Oscar for " Best Documentary " in 2001.

In 2014 the film was included in the National Film Registry .

action

The film uses historical film recordings, interviews and documents to deal with the fate of around 10,000 children who were able to flee from the Nazis with the help of the Kindertransport. For his film, Harris interviewed the now adult children of the Kindertransporte, he interviewed rescuers, helpers, foster parents and, with Mariam Cohen and Franzi Groszmann, two of the still living mothers of the children who were sent away at the time. He tells of the problems of the rescued, of depression and the guilt of the survivors. The Kindertransport refugees report of the great problems settling in in England, of the desperation over the separation from their parents and in many cases of the pain after the war when the children and young people had to find out that their parents were dead. Harris also tells the story of Lory Cahn, who had a place in a Kindertransport and was pulled out of the train window at the last moment by her father, who could not part with her. Cahn was deported with her family to the Theresienstadt concentration camp . Her mother did not survive the Holocaust . In addition, Norbert Wollheim, who died a few weeks after the interview and who organized the Kindertransporte from Berlin, has a say.

background

The mother of the producer Deborah Oppenheimer escaped the Nazis on one of the Kindertransporte. The film was co-produced by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum . The book of the same name for the film was published in 2001.

Reviews

The lexicon of international film judged: “A meritorious historical report with an educational purpose. In terms of film aesthetics, it tends to lag behind the standards of reflected documentary films. "

Awards

The documentary won an Oscar and an Evening Standard British Film Award in 2001.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susan King: 25 titles added to National Film Registry , Los Angeles Times online, December 17, 2014, accessed December 18, 2014
  2. ↑ Kindertransport - In a strange world. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used