WARSAW JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL / KAMERA DAWIDA ONLINE
EINSAME HELDEN
Recommended. Thorough and insightful. You learn everything you might want to know about Germans who saved Jews during the war and what happened to both parties afterwards. All in just 45 minutes. There's a lot of psychology, e.g. prostitutes, being socially excluded too, helped Jews regularly. The documentary also explains why some of the holocaust survivors couldn't stand living in Germany after the war and why others could. It's also a grim but comprehensive picture of German society which in a larger part internalized Nazi values to the point of seeing the helpers as traitors even after the fall of the Nazis.
תמונת ניצחון (IMAGE OF VICTORY)
Watchable. The 25-minute documentary presents an excerpt from the Israeli-Palestinian war: an accidental hero of a military action which cost several thousand lives, mostly Palestinian, and many more thousand wounded. The guy, suffering from enormous pains, is presented cheerfully - mostly smiling and joking - he's become a celebrity. He's in a state-of-art rehabilitation centre, surrounded by friends and well-wishers all the time, visited by a minister, a supermodel (Bar Refaeli) and several musicians. The upmarket health service, the esteem soldiers enjoy and the high level of community tie-ins - he's never alone, even in hospital - all look exotic to a Polish viewer. At the same time you notice how much marketing is involved in the promotion of the deadly conflict. And that's it. Pleasant to watch but shallow.
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