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Making Light in Terezin : A Documentary on Art vs. Death
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This film follows a modern day Minnesota theater group as they travel to Terezin to perform a cabaret piece originally created and enacted there during WWII. Weaving together interviews with perfor...
This film follows a modern day Minnesota theater group as they travel to Terezin to perform a cabaret piece originally created and enacted there during WWII. Weaving together interviews with performers, Holocaust survivors and scholars discussing Jewish humor, Jewish history and more, it tells a story not only of survival but also the triumph of a culture, artistic expression, and the human spirit.
Details
- Creator
- Connell Creations (Firm)
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [Place of publication not identified] : Connell Creations (Firm), [2013]
- ©2013
- New York, N.Y. : distributed by Films Media Group, 2015
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr. 28 min. 4 sec.)) : sound, color
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn918946485
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on March 26, 2015.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Closed-captioned.
- Terezin Cabaret Introduction (1:19) -- Holocaust Theater Project (1:25) -- Terezin Cultural Life (1:07) -- Holocaust Survivor (2:37) -- Holocaust Storytelling (2:44) -- Terezin Cabaret Scripts (3:31) -- Art vs. Death (2:05) -- Hardships in the Ghetto (2:24) -- Terezin Propaganda Facade (1:18) -- Transcending Trauma (1:28) -- Targeting the Jewish Community (2:46) -- Terezin History (1:55) -- Jewish Ghetto History (2:50) -- Comedy for Emotional Strength (2:00) -- Terezin Script Adaptation (3:28) -- Terezin Cabaret Music Terezin Cabaret Actors (1:17) -- Laughter Sets you Free (4:56) -- Terezin Cabaret Welcome (4:35) -- New Holocaust Narrative (2:43) -- Suppressing Holocaust Memories (1:48) -- Jewish Humor (3:37) -- "Lost and Found" (2:51) -- Comedy for Survival (4:12) -- Stifling Laughter (2:10) -- Artistic Escape Moral Justice (4:03) -- Humor and Political Resistance (4:10) -- Holocaust Lessons (2:16) -- Remembering the Holocaust (3:42) -- "Battle Days of Terezin" (2:11) -- "Making Light in Terezin" Dedication (1:26) -- Credits: Making Light in Terezin: A Documentary on Art vs. Death (2:42)
Subjects
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Concentration camp inmates as musicians.
- Holocaust survivors -- Interviews.
- Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) -- Czech Republic -- Terezín (Ústecký kraj) -- History.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Czech Republic -- Terezín (Ústecký kraj).
- Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)