Long Is the Road (1948)
The first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp in U.S.-occupied Germany, and mixing neorealist and expressionist styles, the film follows a Polish Jew and his family from pre-war Warsaw through Auschwitz and the DP camps.
Directors: Herbert B. Fredersdorf, Marek Goldstein.
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Israel Beker as David Jelin |
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Bettina Moissi as Dora Berkowitz |
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Berta Litwina as Hanna Jelin |
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Otto Wernicke as doctor |
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Paul Dahlke as doctor |
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Misha Natan as Partisan |
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David Hart as Mr. Liebermann |
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Heinz-Leo Fischer as Chodetzki |
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Aleksander Bardini as Farmer |
| Directing | Herbert B. Fredersdorf | Director |
| Directing | Marek Goldstein | Director |
| Writing | Israel Becker | Writer |
| Writing | Karl Georg Külb | Writer |