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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025192279621
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 05, 2002
Running Time: 87 minutes
Sales Rank: 21819
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1998
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The winner of the 1998 Academy Award for Best Documentary, this powerful film traces the compelling experiences of five Hungarian Holocaust survivors who fell victim to Hitler's brutal war against the Jews during the final days of World War II.
Including newly-discovered historical footage and a rare interview with a former Nazi doctor at Auschwitz, the film tells the remarkable story of five people - a grandmother, a teacher, a businessman, an artist and a U.S. Congressman - as they return from the United States to their hometowns and to the ghettos and concentration camps in which they were imprisoned.
Through the eyes of the survivors and other witnesses, The Last Days recounts one of the most brutal chapters of this dark period in human history, when families were taken from their homes, stripped of their dignity, deported to concentration camps and ultimately murdered. Above all, The Last Days is a potent depiction of personal strength and courage, and a testament to the power of the human spirit.
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In the last year of World War II, German defeat was inevitable. Yet rather than reinforcing his troops and focusing his efforts on battle, Hitler chose to renew his campaign to eliminate the Jews of Europe. Hungary, which had remained mostly untouched during the war, found her Jews being rounded up and shipped off to concentration camps where they were systematically and brutally killed during these last days. This documentary, directed by James Moll and produced through the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, whose goal is to document the memories of those who lived through the Holocaust, records the stories of five Hungarian Jews who managed to survive.
The five survivors, all now living in the United States, movingly tell how they made it and recount the tragedies they witnessed: Tom Lantos, a Congressman from California, whose 17 grandchildren are a gift from his two daughters to try to make up for the families Lantos and his wife lost; Alice Lok Cahana, an artist who uses her painting to testify to what she saw and to grieve for the meaningless death of her sister Edith; Bill Basch, who while working for the resistance escaped from Hungarian police by joining a group of Jews that were, unknowingly, being led to Buchenwald; Renee Firestone, an educator at Simon Wiesenthal Center's Educational Outreach Program, whose touching connection to the past is discovered in the simple gift of a bathing suit given to her by her father; and Irene Zisblatt, a grandmother who smuggled out, at tremendous risk, a few precious diamonds in order to buy bread when there was no more food to be had. Other interviewees include American liberators, a superkommando, and a Nazi doctor who performed experiments on camp inmates.
While the stories are tragic and watching this documentary is a tearful experience, the final message is one of hope, as the five people return to Hungary and the camps with their families to confront their pasts and say their prayers. While the occasionally graphic footage will disturb, this Oscar-winning film is one that should be shared with family as a way of educating and reminding us, 'Never again.' --Jenny Brown
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Many Hungarian Jews perceived themselves as loyal and enthusiastic citizens of their chosen country. They took it for granted that their Christian neighbors were true friends and wished them no harm. This illusion was brutally shattered after the Nazi invasion. These Christians often took special delight in harassing Jews and handing them over to Hitler's thugs. What happened to God? Why did He allow such evil to exist? You will find the interviews with these survivors of the Holocaust riveting. ... Read More
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Spielberg's documentary about the holocaust is excellent - a very moving film. This should be mandatory viewing by high school history students everywhere, especially in those countries who deny the last Holocaust as they prepare for the next one.
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This moving documentary covers the lives of 5 Hungarian survivors who were young people during the war and who are all now United States citizens. They are Alice Lok Cahana, Congressman Tom Lantos, Irene Zisblatt, Bill Basch, and Renée Firestone. Although I had previously heard or read some of these people's stories, I hadn't heard all of them, nor all of the details provided here. Also included are interviews with former Nazi doctor Hans Münch, some American liberators, and Greek survivor Dario Gabbai ... Read More
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This has to be one of the best documentary films I've ever run across. The personal stories of 5 survivors of the holocaust are laid before you raw and uncensored as they should be. The survivors were all young at the time and their stories told with their photographs shows these extraordinary people to have been at the time very ordinary just like you and me. Their journeys back to the camps they were held in makes this as real as you can get. Their strength and ability to carry on awes me to no end. All ages ... Read More
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yet another holocaust movie, the surest way next to mental retardation and AIDS to win a best documentary oscar. this one is really quite a bit better than the others, focusing on five very different survivors from hungary, and giving great insight into how their futures were shaped and their need to return to see what remains of their old homes. very affecting, and free of rhetoric: allowing the experience to speak for itself, rather than overlaying it with rhetoric. honest and spiritually satisfying.
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