Postwar destruction; German occupation in Bulgaria
Creator(s)
- Haim Oliver (Producer)
- BULGARIAN CINEMATHEQUE
Scope and Content
Reel 1 Bulgarian intertitles. Contemporary footage of a man singing a song in Bulgarian and playing the guitar (the song is performed other times over the duration of the film). Footage of postwar Sofia and Nazi atrocities - ovens, corpses, children showing their tattoos after the liberation of Auschwitz. Denmark, bicycles. CUs memorials, tombstones. Train. Hitler in mountains, meeting with Bulgarian official. Star of David patch. Antisemitic propaganda leaflets. CUs, newspapers. Nazis marching, flags with swastikas. CUs, documents and telegrams. Still photographs of Jews, synagogue. Contemporary footage - interview with a man in his study. Man describes history of German occupation, interspersed with still photographs. He reads directly out of a book.
Note(s)
Film narration needs to be analyzed further by a Bulgarian speaker. See Film IDs 2778, 2779, and 2780 for the continuation of this film.
Film received the "National Front Prize" from the short film festival in Plovdiv, Bulgaria in 1978.
Subjects
- SWASTIKAS
- BICYCLES
- RESISTERS/RESISTANCE
- CHILDREN
- HITLER, ADOLF
- DENMARK
- DOCUMENTS
- CREMATORIA
- STARS OF DAVID
- TRAINS
- INTERVIEWS
- CORPSES
- COLLABORATORS
- FLAGS
- NEWSPAPERS
- MARCHING
- ATROCITIES
- AUSCHWITZ
- MEMORIALS
Places
- Sofia, Bulgaria
Genre
- Film
- Documentary.