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Who will write our history

Title

Who will write our history / Katahdin Productions and Match&Spark present, in association with ARTE and NDR, and The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute ; a film by Roberta Grossman ; written, produced and directed by Roberta Grossman ; consulting scholar, Samuel D. Kassow ; executive producers, Nancy Speilberg, Ronald S. Lauder, Al Berg, Ori and Mirit Eisen, Anna Różalska, Philippa Kowarsky.

Publication

[Łódź, Poland] : Katahdin Productions, [2018]
[Los Angeles] : Good Docs [Educational Sales], [2019?]
©2018

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	C.1	Moving image	By appointment only	DVDR 2190 W C.1 C.1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Reserve Film and Video

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Description

1 videodisc (96 min. or 37 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists but with pen and paper. Who Will Write Our History mixes the writings of the Oyneg Shabes archive with new interviews, rarely seen footage and dramatizations to illuminate the work of the resistance fighters.

Subject

Genre/Form

Personal narratives.
Historical reenactments (Motion pictures)
Documentary films.
Educational films.
Feature films.
Historical films.
History.
Nonfiction films.

Note

"Based on the book, Who will write our history? by Samuel D. Kassow"--Beginning credits
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2018.
"© Katahdin Productions 2018; Copyright 2018"--Disc label & end credits
Actual running time on container: "Full length film - 96 minutes / Educational film - 37 minutes."
"Full length version (93 minutes), classroom length version (36 minutes)"--Title frame
Presented in both full length and classroom length versions.
A mixture of documentary footage and dramatization.
"Words spoken by actors in this film are taken directly from a secret archive in the Warsaw Ghetto."--Beginning credits
"Produced by Katahdin Productions in association with Match&Spark, arte NDR, National Endowment for The Humanities in association with The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute and The Association of the Jewish Historical Institute In Poland ; film co-produced by ECI Łódź - the City of Culture, Mazovia Institute of Culture ; a Polish Film Institute co-financed production ..."--End credits.

Credits (note)

Director of photography, Dyanna Taylor ; editors, Chris Callister, Ondine Rarey ; composer, Todd Boekelheide ; production designers, Frank Gampel, Marek Warszewski ; costume designer, Aleksandra Staszko ; story consultant, Sophie Sartain ; sound designer, James LeBrecht ; co-executive producers, The Blavatnik Family Foundation [and others] ; dramatizations casting director, Piotr Bartuszek ; voice over casting director, Heidi Levitt, Marin Hope.

Performer (note)

Adrien Brody (voices of Emanuel Ringelbaum) and Joan Allen (voices of Rachel Auerbach), Jowita Budnik (Rachel Auerbach), Piotr Głowacki (Emanuel Ringelbaum), Piotr Jankowski (Hersh Wasser), Wojciech Zielinski (Abraham Lewin), Karolina Gruszka (Judyta Ringelblum) [and others] ; Interviewees: Jan Grabowski, Samuel D. Kassow [and others].

System Details (note)

DVD; NTSC format, all regions; stereo.

Language (note)

Primarily in English, with sections of dialog in Polish and Yiddish; subtitled and close captioned in English.

OCLC

1126345667

Title

Publisher

[Łódź, Poland] : Katahdin Productions, [2018]

Distributor

[Los Angeles] : Good Docs [Educational Sales], [2019?]

Copyright Date

Country of Producing Entity

United States naf

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videodisc

Physical Medium

4 3/4 in.

burning rdapm

color black and white

polychrome monochrome rdacc

Digital File Characteristics

video file

DVD video

region 1

System Details

DVD; NTSC format, all regions; stereo.

Cast

Adrien Brody (voices of Emanuel Ringelbaum) and Joan Allen (voices of Rachel Auerbach), Jowita Budnik (Rachel Auerbach), Piotr Głowacki (Emanuel Ringelbaum), Piotr Jankowski (Hersh Wasser), Wojciech Zielinski (Abraham Lewin), Karolina Gruszka (Judyta Ringelblum) [and others] ; Interviewees: Jan Grabowski, Samuel D. Kassow [and others].

Credits

Director of photography, Dyanna Taylor ; editors, Chris Callister, Ondine Rarey ; composer, Todd Boekelheide ; production designers, Frank Gampel, Marek Warszewski ; costume designer, Aleksandra Staszko ; story consultant, Sophie Sartain ; sound designer, James LeBrecht ; co-executive producers, The Blavatnik Family Foundation [and others] ; dramatizations casting director, Piotr Bartuszek ; voice over casting director, Heidi Levitt, Marin Hope.

Language

Primarily in English, with sections of dialog in Polish and Yiddish; subtitled and close captioned in English.

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Chronological Term

1939-1945

Added Author

Grossman, Roberta, screenwriter, film producer, film director.

Spielberg, Nancy, 1956- film producer.

Lauder, Ronald S., film producer.

Berg, Al, film producer.

Eisen, Ori, film producer.

Eisen, Mirit, film producer.

Różalska, Anna, film producer.

Kowarsky, Philippa, film producer.

Taylor, Dyanna, cinematographer.

Callister, Chris, 1980- editor of miving image work.

Rarey, Ondine, editor of miving image work.

Boekelheide, Todd, composer (expression)

Brody, Adrien, voice actor.

Allen, Joan, 1956- voice actor.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Kassow, Samuel D. Who will write our history? Polish.

Katahdin Productions (Firm), presenter, production company.

Match&Spark (Firm), presenter, production company.

Norddeutscher Rundfunk, production company.

Association relative à la télévision européenne, production company.

Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma, production company.

ECI Łódź, production company.

Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury, production company.

Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, sponsoring body.

Good Docs (Firm), film distributor.

Branch Call Number

DVDR 2190 W

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