MUSEUM OF TELEVISION & RADIO, THE: 2001 TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL, PACKAGE 9: HITLER'S HOLOCAUST
Summary
From its start television has been a vital producer and underwriter of documentaries. To salute this long and rich association, in 2000 The Museum of Television & Radio inaugurated an annual festival devoted to the art and history of the television documentary. Building on the success of last year, this second festival features screenings of both premieres and distinguished recently seen works, and also includes a retrospective of the careers of pioneering documentarians Albert and David Maysles and their collaborators at Maysles Films. A new feature of the Festival this year is "Docu-Jam: A Selection of Outstanding Student Documentaries," held in association with Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) and co-moderated by Jon Alpert, DCTVÕs cofounder and a distinguished documentarian. The Festival also presents a seminar on the timely question, "What constitutes reality on television?" During each evening of the three-week festival, documentary makers and their production teams introduce a screening of their work and discuss the process of production afterward. Through dialogue between the producers and the audience, issues crucial to the craft and content of the documentary are explored. Programs in the festival represent the quality and range of the documentary form -- from archival compilation to cinema verite. This year's selections feature two very different series on the Holocaust and two documentaries on aspects of New York City culture and politics. The Festival also includes portraits of two elder statesmen of the arts, Chuck Jones and Gordon Parks, and documentaries from two first-time filmmakers. All the works testify to the strength and vigor of the television documentary at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
A cause celebre in Germany when it aired late last year, "Hitler's Holocaust" examines the darkest period of the twentieth century. The producers, previously responsible for the critically lauded documentaries "Hitler: A Profile" and "Hitler's Henchmen," scoured archives throughout Europe to uncover unseen film and interviewed more than 500 witnesses about the origins and implementation of the Final Solution. The festival premieres two episodes from the six-part series: "Invasion," which details the intensifying of the program against the Jews as the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, and "Ghetto," which explores conditions in the Warsaw ghetto and the expansion of the concentration camps during the early years of World War II. (2000; each episode approx. 45 minutes)
Details
- NETWORK: N/A
- DATE: 2001
- RUNNING TIME: 1:30:47
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:64339
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews - Segregation - Poland; National socialism; World War II
- SERIES RUN: N/A
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- For "Hitler's Holocaust: Ghetto":
- Guido Knopp … Executive Producer
- Stefan Brauburger … Producer
- Peter Hartel … Producer
- Maurice Philip Remy … Director, Writer
- Hans-Gunther Voigt … Researcher
- Adrian Wood … Researcher
- von Bassewitz, Vanessa … Researcher
- Claudia Bismark … Researcher
- Julia Disselmeyer … Researcher
- Franz Fleischmann … Researcher
- Michaela Liechtenstein … Researcher
- Manfred Oldenburg … Researcher
- Domonik Schulte … Researcher
- Thomas Staehler … Researcher
- Klaus Doldinger … Music by
- Roger Mudd … Host
- Herrmann, Ed (See also: Herrmann, Edward) … Narrator
- Hans Frank
- Niklas Frank
- Joseph Goebels
- Fritz Hippler
- Adolf Hitler