From Bitter Earth: Artists of the Holocaust
Screening Information
Film Details
| Country | United Kingdom | |
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| Year | 1988 | |
| Running Time | 64 MIN | |
| Languages | English, French, Hebrew | |
| Subtitles | English | |
| Director | Paul Morrison |
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Description
From Bitter Earth powerfully examines the drawings and paintings that survived the concentration camps, ghettos and hiding places of the Second World War. While most of the artists who created them perished, Morrison interviews painters like Yehuda Bacon, Dinah Gottliebova and Walter Spitzer who talk about the extraordinary perseverance and ingenuity that such artists demonstrated in attempting to capture the world around them, which was often punishable by death. Upon its initial airing on the BBC in 1988, The Independent referred to Paul Morrison’s documentary as “a worthy footnote to [Claude Lanzmann's] Shoah.”
Presentation Details
| Pre-recorded Q & A | Director Paul Morrison and Historian-Curator-Writer Monica Bohm-Duchen, in conversation with Professor Nathan Abrams, Bangor University, Wales |
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