Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Imaginary Witness explores the complex relationship between Hollywood and the Holocaust and considers the ways American movies shape our perception of World War II. Using rarely seen footage including first-hand accounts by directors, actors, writers and producers, the film considers America's initial ambivalence and denial during the height of Nazism, the silence of the postwar years, the impact of television and the current climate. Narrated by Gene Hackman, this important new film features, amongst others, Steven Spielberg.
Reviews
“Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust wisely and exhaustingly looks at how Hollywood movies from the 1930s through the 1990s and TV in the golden age of drama dealt with the rise of German fascism and the Holocaust.”
Doris Toumarkine, Film Journal International
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When
2:45 PM Monday, 21 February
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Greater Union - Cinema 2
Ticket Price
Full price $14
Industry $12
SPU Concession $10
As Part Of
General DocumentariesAbout Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
90 minutes35mm
In English
Print Source
Barbara Truyen
Festivals
AFI 2004Boston Jewish 2004
Fort Lauderdale 2004
Jewish 2004
Marco Island 2004
Montreal 2004
Tribeca 2004
Williamstown 2004
About the Director
Daniel Anker
Daniel Anker's producing credits include Carnegie Hall Christmas (1991), Oedipus Rex (1992), La Fanciulla del West (1992), and Marsalis On Music (1995). With Barak Goodman he co-directed the highly acclaimed Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2000), a documentary on one of America's most infamous cases of American racial injustice in the 20th Century.
Filmography
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004)Music from the Inside Out (2004)
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2000)