GERMAN DOCUMENTARIES 2010 (PDF - 8 MB)

A BLOND pROVINCE – poland and Nazi Racial Obsession
by Jacek Kubiak and Klaus Salge
Only days after the German invasion of Poland in September
1939 there began a phase of the Nazi occupation – the creation
of a field laboratory for German racist policies in Poland.
The Nazis planned in Western Poland – they called the district
“Warthegau” – a “blond province”. A laboratory for the breeding
of the “German master race”. Immediately after the
German invasion tens of thousands of Poles – Christians and
Jews – were turned out of their homes, deported, murdered by
the German Army, the SA and the SS. They had to “make room” for the many Volksdeutschen who
had been lured “home”. Three men, in 1939 they were still children: Zwi Steinitz from Tel Aviv, who
returns after 70 years to the country of his birth, where his family was exterminated; Henryk Jaszcz,
who in 1939 lost track of his parents in Poznan; and Dieter Bielenstein, who came to Poznan as an 8
year-old with his parents from Latvia. It is the beginning of the Holocaust.
German title: EINE BLONDE pROVINZ – polen und der deutsche Rassenwahn
52min | DigiBeta | 16:9 | original German version with English subtitles available
THE BLUE HAND
by Peter Sempel ARTS
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german documentaries 2010
Daniel Richter, German artist from Hamburg, painting
new pictures for exhibition kunsthaus-hamburg, summer
2009, in his studio, Berlin, Auguststr., with his friend
Jonathan Meese, and 2 giraffes and a lion.
The film shows, without commentary, 30mins of 5 hourspainting,
their lightheartedness and cruelty, destructivity
and creativity, swiftness of their hands and minds, musicality
and humour.
German title: DIE BLAUE HAND
30min or 15min | DVD | 16:9
German version wih English subtitles available
Jon Hendricks, world famous jazz singer and "vocalizer" of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, singing with
Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, still sings at 85 in Clubs in New York, London and
Paris. He now went back to Europe, where he was fighting against Hitler's racist regime.
But when the purely white and racist US.Military Police shot at Hendricks and his fellow "Negro
Soldiers", he deserted and declared his own war on the segregated US Army. "We were treated like
slaves on the plantation" , Hendricks remembers. Jon Hendricks created his own phantom US Supply
Unit in the town of Besancon in France and organized their survival on the black market. It all finally
endet in chains and a US prison work camp in Marseille and Wuerzburg.
60 years later, commemorating the American landings on the beaches of Normandy, the French gave
Hendricks the "Légion d'Honneur". Was it for his Music or for his very special war against racism?
German title: BLUES MARCH – DER SOLDAT JON HENDRICKS
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78min | 16:9 | HD | DigiBeta | DVD | original English with German voiceover or French subtitles available
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BLUES MARCH – SOLDIER JON HENDRICKS
by Malte Rauch MUSIC | ORAL-HISTORY | PORTRAIT | WAR&PEACE
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