| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Performer |
Dieter Pohl, Dirk Rupnow, Hannes Heer, Myriam Y. Arani, Rudolf Moessner |
| Event |
Originally produced by First Run Features in 2007. |
| Summary |
In this astonishing, searing and vitally important documentary, Oscar-nominated director Michael Verhoeven unearths the long-buried truth - while simultaneously showing modern Germany in the throes of an identity crisis. THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER documents Germany's controversial Wehrmacht Exhibition, which for the first time ever revealed the personal letters, photographs and film footage implicating the common foot soldier in horrific acts. While nationalist and far right groups led street protests against it, saying the 'evidence' damning their fathers and grandfathers had been falsified, Verhoeven interviewed historians and experts, soldiers and eyewitnesses, and traveled to the killing fields of the Eastern Front. The result is both an invaluable document and a revealing look at an insecure nation, still reconciling its proud history with a unique and horrible wartime legacy. "*Both chilling and fascinating. Impressive*." - ***The New York Times*** |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Subject |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Military history.
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Balts (Indo-European people)
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History, Modern.
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German language.
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History.
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Documentary films.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Verhoeven, Michael, 1938- film director.
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Pohl, Dieter, actor.
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Rupnow, Dirk, 1972- actor.
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Heer, Hannes, actor.
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Y. Arani, Myriam, actor.
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Moessner, Rudolf, actor.
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First-Run Features (Firm) Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm) Distributor.
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| Music No. |
1464176 Kanopy |
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