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EMIGRATION, N.Y. - The Story of an Expulsion |
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EMIGRATION,
N.Y. by Egon Humer presents the portraits
and personal fate of Jews who emigrated from Austria and now live
in New York. This is a moving and challenging film, exemplary in
its rigorous construction, touching and astonishing in what it brings
to light. Without
the interviewer being seen, without hearing his questions, the curiosity
is conveyed to the audience, with which he tried to find out something
about which he did not know before, about individual persons and
about history. Today
only the cinema is able to establish a room to ask time witnesses
in depth, whereas TV at its speed A
collective story in which Humer nevertheless and constantly refers
to individual differences and divergences ... Thousands of memories
in a very quiet, very meticulous picture. The
number of the interviewees, twelve, reminds one of jurors - the
more stifling, when these men and women, instead of judging, just
tell. Out
came a stirring picture, which tells the story of our century from
the perspective of the ones persecuted. A
very moving portrait, which impresses especially through its unobtrusive
presentation. A
great remaining filmic testimony. Purist,
brusque, monumental. If
one does not shy away from a little emotiveness, one could say,
that between here and there lie decades and the ocean, across which
with EMIGRATION, N.Y. a bridge was thrown from both sides. History
comes to life and touches the heart in „EMIGRATION, N.Y. -
The Story of an Expulsion“, an extraordinarily affecting three-hour
documentary about Austrian emigrés who resettled in America to escape
the Nazi death machine. FILME: Meine "Zigeuner" Mutter | Leon Askin | Matura | Intifada
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