Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004)
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.
Director: Daniel Anker
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Gene Hackman as Narrator |
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Norma Barzman as Self |
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Michael Berenbaum as Self |
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Robert Clary as Self |
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Dan Curtis as Self |
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Ralph Edwards as Self |
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Ralph Fiennes as Self |
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Stanley Frazen as Self |
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Ben Kingsley as Self |
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Sidney Lumet as Self |
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Branko Lustig as Self |
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Abby Mann as Self |
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Vincent Sherman as Self |
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Steven Spielberg as Self |
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Martin Starger as Self |
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Rod Steiger as Self |
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George Stevens Jr. as Self |
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Malvin Wald as Self |
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Harry M. Warner as Self |
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Fritz Weaver as Self |
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Gene Reynolds as Self |
| Editing | Bruce Shaw | Editor |
| Production | Daniel Anker | Producer |
| Directing | Daniel Anker | Director |
| Camera | Nancy Schreiber | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Tom Hurwitz | Director of Photography |