Long Is the Road

Nov 11, 1948

1h 17m

★ 0.0

First Post-War Jewish Film From Europe! Dialogue in English, German, Yiddish and Polish

Overview

"Long is the Road" - 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.

Genres

History

Drama

Production Companies

I.F.O. (Internationale Filmorganization)

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Cast

David Jelin

Israel Beker

Dora Berkowitz

Bettina Moissi

Hanna Jelin

Berta Litwina

doctor

Otto Wernicke

doctor

Paul Dahlke

Partisan

Misha Natan

Mr. Liebermann

David Hart

Chodetzki

Heinz-Leo Fischer

Farmer

Aleksander Bardini

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