Zbynek Brynych's award-winning film presents a vivid and realistic picture of the infamous Terezín Ghetto under Nazi control during World War II. The Ghetto was an international marshaling community in Czechslaovakia where thousands of Jews from around Europe were held before being told they were being simply transferred to other towns - when they were in fact being sent to their deaths in the concentration camps. Beneath the apparent serenity of everyday life in the Ghetto the film slowly gathers a sense of the cold grip of terror in the Nazi's purposeful... grotesque preparations for genocide. This haunting feature is presented for the first time ever in the UK. Special Features: Booklet Essay [show more]
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Wartime drama from the Czechoslovak New Wave artistic movement of the 1960s. In the Theresienstadt ghetto of Czechoslovakia, the Nazis are preparing for a visit from the International Red Cross. In an attempt to cover up the real function of the ghetto they draft in actors for a propaganda film which will show the community flourishing as opposed to dwindling. To outsiders, it seems that the Jews being held there are living in relative comfort and under the protection of the Third Reich. However, this was only a facade, as the ghetto served merely as a holding place for Jews before they were transported to extermination camps as part of the Final Solution.
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