Arnošt Lustig
Author
Publisher
Impedimenta
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
Inspirada en una história real, Una oración por Kateřina Horovitzová describe el trágico destino de un grupo de acaudalados hombres de negocios judeoamericanos, de paso en un campo de concentración polaco dirigido por un retorcido oficial de las SS. Los prisioneros reciben la promesa de que podrán ser liberados gracias a un intercambio por prisioneros alemanes, pero su repatriación solo se producirá si son ellos mismos quienes corren con...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
After witnessing the suicide of her father and the murder of her mother and brother upon their arrival in Auschwitz, fifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersova is forced to choose between working in a German military brothel on the eastern front or death.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Czech
Formats
Description
With this simultaneously harrowing and lyrical debut feature, Jan Němec established himself as the most uncompromising visionary among the radical filmmakers who made up the Czechoslovak New Wave. Adapted from a novel by Arnošt Lustig, closely tracks two boys who escape from a concentration-camp transport and flee into the surrounding woods, a hostile terrain where the brute realities of survival coexist with dreams, memories, and fragments of visual...
5) Fighter
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Documentary film that follows friends Jan Wiener and Arnošt Lustig on a trip to Europe in 1998. Holocaust survivors, Wiener and Lustig met in the United States, where both had fled from communist Czechoslovakia. The trip recreates the journey made by Wiener as he escaped from Nazi occupied Prague, through Slovenia and Italy, on his way to joining the British Royal Air Force before his return to Prague after World War II.