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A Town Donated

Short documentary about the Holocaust. Opening with footage of a friendly football match, this film juxtaposes seemingly innocent scenes with unsettling drawings of life in the ghettos and concentration camps.

Credits

Vladimir Kressel (director); Vladimir Skalsky (photography); Vlasta Styblíková (editor); Petr Brada (producer); Vladimir Kressel (script)

Complete catalog record
Alternate title: Mĕsto darované. English.
Original source: Reproduction of: Mĕsto darované Czechoslovakia, 1965. 16mm Comb col pos. | The British Film Institute | Archive Reference: N-507102. | Contributors: Skalsky, Vladimir; Styblíková, Vlasta ; Brada, Petr; Kressel, Vladimir. | Production Company: Short Film Studio, Prague.
Release: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2017.
Physical description: 1 online resource (video file 0:10:59) : sound, black and white | monochrome
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities | Race discrimination -- Germany -- History -- 20th century | Race discrimination | Atrocities | Germany | Second World War (1939-1945) | Sports and games | Nazism | Concentration camps | Judaism | Arts and culture | Women | Children | Death | Holocaust | Wars | Auschwitz-Birkenau | Oświęcim (Auschwitz) | Poland | Theresienstadt | Riga | Latvia | Minsk | Belarus | Czechoslovakia | USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) | Documentary | 1939-1945 | 1900-1999

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Sources

  1. UCLA Library Catalog · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record

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