Filmography

This filmography is a representative sample of fiction productions and documentaries made between 1944 and 2015 on the history of the Holocaust and the persecution of European Jews. It is not an exhaustive list.

Most of these films can be viewed at the Multimedia Teaching Centre or are available in stores, on video.

Unless otherwise stated, the films are fiction:

D = Documentary
TV = Film produced by the Television
CM = Short Film

1944
Majdanek, cemetery of Europe of Alexander Ford, Poland. (D)

1945
The Return by Henri-Cartier Bresson and Richard Banks, France/USA. (D)
The Last chance by Léopold Lindtberg, Switzerland.

1946
The Assassins are among us by Wolfgang Staudte, Germany.
Nuremberg by Pare Lorentz and Stuart Schulberg, USA. (D)
The Nuremberg Trials of Elizaveta Svilova, USSR. (D)

1947
Lang iz der Weg / "The road is long" by Herbert Fredersdorf and Marek Goldstein, with Israël Becker, USA- Germany.

1948
The Last Step by Wanda Jakubowska, Poland.
Truth has no boundaries of Alexander Ford, Poland.

1949
Return to life of A. Cayatte, H-G. Clouzot and J. Dréville, France.
Ghetto Terezin of Alfred Radok, Czechoslovakia.

1950
Beyond the evil by Joseph Krumgold, Israel.

1953
The Juggler by Edward Dmytrick, USA, with Kirk Douglas.

1955
Generation by Andrzej Wajda, Poland.

1956
Night and Fog by Alain Resnais, France. (D)

1958
Stars by Konrad Wolf, GDR/Bulgaria.
The Ball of the cursed/ The Young Lions by Edward Dmytrick, USA, with Marion Brando and Montgomery Clift.

1959
The Destiny of a Man by Serge Bondartchouk, USSR.
The Diary of Anne Frank by George Stevens, USA.

1960
Kapo of Gilberto Pontecorvo, Italy.
Mein Kampf by Erwin Leiser, Sweden, comments by Léon Zitrone. (D)

1961
The Time of the Ghetto by Frédéric Rossif, France. (D)
The Enclosure by Armand Gatti, France/Yugoslavia, with Jean Négroni.
The Passenger by Andrzej Munk, Poland.
Eichman, the man of the Third Reich by Erwin Leiser, Switzerland. (D)
Judgment in Nuremberg by Stanley Kramer, USA, with Marlène Dietrich and Montgomery Clift.
Ambulance by Janusz Morgenstern, Poland. (CM)

1962
Transport to Paradise from Zbynek Brynych, Czechoslovakia.
Operation Eichmann, from R-G. Spingsteen, USA.

1964
Diamonds in the night by Jan Nemec, Czechoslovakia.
I was Kapo by Tadeusz Jaworski, Poland.

1965
The Pawnbroker by Sidney Lumet, USA, with Rod Steiger.
The glass cage by Philippe Arthuis, France/Israel.

1966 – The Back-season from Zoltan Fabri, Hungary.
– Ordinary Fascism of Mikhail Romm, USSR. (D)
– The Twenty-fifth hour by Henri Verneuil, France/Yugoslavia/Italy, with Anthony Quinn and Virna Lisi.

1968 – Juraz Herz’s Body Incinerator, Czechoslovakia.

1970 – The Garden of the Finzi-Contini by Vittorio de Sica, Italy, with Dominique Sanda and Helmut Berger.
– Landscape after the battle by Andrzej Wajda, Poland, with Daniel Olbrychski.
– Sorrow and Pity by Marcel Ophuls, France/ Germany. (D)

1973 – Le Train by Pierre Granier-Deferre, France, with Romy Schneider and Jean-Louis Trintignant.

1974 – Night Porter by Liliana Cavani, Italy, with Dirk Borgarde and Charlotte Rampling.
– The Eighty-first move of Haim Guri, Israel. (D)

1975 – The Man in the glass cage by Arthur Hiller, USA, with Maximillian Schell.
– Pasqualino by Lina Werthmuller, Italy, with Giancarlo Giannini.

1976 – Memory of Justice by Marcel Ophuls, USA. (D)
– Mr. Klein by Joseph Losey, France, with Alain Delon.

1977 – The Life Ahead by Moshe Mizrahi, France, with Simone Signoret.

1978 – Jacob the liar by Frank Beyer, GDR.
– Holocaust by Marvin Chomski, USA, with James Wood and Meryl Streep. (TV)

1979 – David by Peter Lilienthal, Germany.

1980 – Sursis pour un orchestre / Playing for time by Daniel Mann, USA, with Vanessa Redgrave. (TV)
– Lili Marleen by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany, with Hanna Shygulla.

1981 – The Boat is full by Markus Imhoof, Switzerland.
– Station of pain of Henri Jouf, France.

1982 – Sophie’s Choice by Alan Pakula, USA, with Meryl Streep.
– The Wall of Hate/ Le Mur de la haine by Robert Markowitz, USA. (TV)
– Genocide by Arnold Schwartzman, USA, produced by the center Simon Wisenthal, comments from Elisabeth Taylor and Orson Welles. (D)

1983 – In the name of all mine by Robert Enrico, France/Canada, with Michaël York and Brigitte Fossey.
– Twilight zone, the Movie by John Landis, USA, produced by Steven Spielberg.

1984 – The Final Solution, by Arthur Cohn, Switzerland. (D)
– The Conference from Wannsee by Shlomo Aronson and Heinz Shirk, Germany.

1985 – Leave, return by Claude Lelouch, France.
– Shoah by Claude Lanzmann, France. (D)

1986 – Shadow of Victory from Ate de Jong, Holland.
– City of the Mute by Jean-Patrick Lebel, France. (D)

1987 – ° by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium.
– Goodbye children by Louis Malle, France/ Germany.
– The Storia by Luigi Comencini, Italy, with Claudia Cardinale and Lambert Wilson.
– The Survivors of Sobibor by Jack Gold, G-B. (Fiction, TV)

1988 – From Nuremberg to Nuremberg by Frédéric Rossif, France. (D)

1989 – The Weapons of Mind by Pierre Sauvage, France. (D)
– Der Rosengarten from Fons Rademakers, Germany, with Liv Ullmann, Maximilian Schell, Peter Fonda. (TV)

1990 – Korczac, by Andrzej Wajda, Poland, with Wojtek Pszoniak.
– Izkor; the slaves of memory, from Eyal Sivan, Israel. (D)

1991 – First convoy by Pierre-Oscar Lévy, France. (TV)
– The Cry of the butterfly of Karel Kachyna, France/Czechoslovakia.

1992 – The Children of the Vel’-d'Hiv' from Maurice Frydland, France. (TV)
– Operation «Spring wind»: the Vel'-d'Hiv' Roundup by Blanche Finger and William Karel, France. (TV)

1993 – Me Ivan, you Abraham of Yolande Zoberman, France/Russia.
– Choice and destiny of Tsipi Reibenbach, Israel. (D)

1994 – Schindler’s List by Steven Spielberg, USA, with Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes.
– Tzedek, the Righteous by Marek Halter, France/Switzerland. (D)

1995 – Wallenberg from Kjell Grede, Sweden.
– Death in the face by William Karel, France. (TV)

1996 – Zakhor: remember by Fabienne Rousso-Lenoir, France. (CM)
– The Truce by Francesco Rossi, Italy, with John Turturro.
– Is Memory water soluble by Charles Najman, France, with Solange Najman. (D)
– Drancy Avenir d'Arnaud des Pallières, France. (D)
– Shine by Scott Hicks, Australia, with Geoffroy Rush.

1997 – A Living one who passes by Claude Lanzmann, France. (TV)
– The Truce by Francesco Rosi, France/ Germany/ Italy/ Switzerland

1998 – Lifestyle by Radu Mihaileanu, France, with Marie-José Nat and Rufus.
– Life is beautiful by Roberto Benigni, Italy.
– Robinson’s Star by Soren Kragh Jacobsen, Denmark.
– I am alive and I love you by Roger Kahane, France.
– A Specialist by Eyal Sivan and Roni Braumann, France/Israel/ Germany. (D)

1999 – Sunshine from Istvan Szabo, Canada/Hungary, with Ralph Finnes.
– Jacob the liar by Peter Kassovitz, USA, with Robin Williams.
– Travel by Emmanuel Finkiel, France.
– Hidden Children by Raphaël Delpart, France. (TV)
– La Chaconne from Auschwitz by Michel Daeron, France. (D)
– The Last Days by James Moll, USA. (D)
The Photographer/Ghetto Chronicle from Lodz de Darlusz Jablonski, France/Germany/Poland. (D)

2000 – Autopsy of a lie by Jacques Tarnero, France. (D)
– Lisa by Pierre Grimblat, France.

2001 – Casting by Emmanuel Finkiel, France. (TV)
– Sobibor by Claude Lanzmann, France. (D)
– The Believer/ Danny Balint of Henry Bean, USA.
– The Grey Zone by Tim Blacke Nelson, USA.

2005 – Survivors of Patrick Rotman, France (D)

2007 – The Debt by Assaf Bernstein, Israel
– The Counterfeiters by Stefan Ruzowitzky, Austria / Germany

2009 – Marga from Ludi Boeken, Germany

2010 – The Raid from Rose Bosch, France / Hungary / Germany
Her name was Sarah by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, France

2014 – The Labyrinth of Silence by Giulio Ricciarelli, Germany
– The Heirs of Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, France

2015 – The Son of Saul by László Nemes, Hungary

Filmography until 2015 directed by Claude Singer, for the Shoah Memorial.