Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

1h 32m
DocumentaryHistory
6.5

Daniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject: Hollywood’s complicated, often contradictory relationship with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. The questions it raises go right the very nature of how film functions in our culture, and while hardly exhaustive, Anker’s film makes for a good, thought provoking starting point.

Cast

Gene Hackman
Narrator
Norma Barzman
Self
Michael Berenbaum
Self
Robert Clary
Self
Dan Curtis
Self
Ralph Edwards
Self
Ralph Fiennes
Self
Stanley Frazen
Self
Ben Kingsley
Self
Sidney Lumet
Self
Branko Lustig
Self
Abby Mann
Self
Vincent Sherman
Self
Steven Spielberg
Self
Martin Starger
Self
Rod Steiger
Self
George Stevens Jr.
Self
Malvin Wald
Self
Harry M. Warner
Self
Fritz Weaver
Self
Gene Reynolds
Self

Crew

Daniel Anker
Director, Producer
Bruce Shaw
Editor
Nancy Schreiber
Director of Photography
Tom Hurwitz
Director of Photography

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