Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004)

6.6/10 92 min Documentary History

Overview

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.

Cast

Gene Hackman

Narrator

Norma Barzman

Self

Robert Clary

Self

Dan Curtis

Self

Ralph Edwards

Self

Ralph Fiennes

Self

Ben Kingsley

Self

Sidney Lumet

Self

Branko Lustig

Self

Abby Mann

Self

Vincent Sherman

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Steven Spielberg

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Rod Steiger

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George Stevens Jr.

Self

Fritz Weaver

Self

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