{"id":45002,"date":"2018-09-21T17:43:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T23:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=45002"},"modified":"2018-09-21T17:43:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T23:43:49","slug":"this-years-oscar-foreign-film-race-is-full-of-movies-on-the-holocaust-and-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/this-years-oscar-foreign-film-race-is-full-of-movies-on-the-holocaust-and-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"This year\u2019s Oscar foreign film race is full of movies on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1549139\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(JTA) \u2014 Russia nominated a film about the Nazi death camp Sobibor as its entry for the Academy Award for best foreign language film.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2018\/05\/10\/news-opinion\/gory-holocaust-film-blockbuster-russia\">\u201cSobibor,\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;a multimillion-dollar production with state funding, centers on the 1943 escape by Jewish inmates from the camp under the leadership of Russian inmates. It was one of only two such occurrences during the Holocaust, with the other happening that same year in Treblinka.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45003\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sobibor2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45003\" class=\"wp-image-45003 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sobibor2-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sobibor2-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sobibor2-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sobibor2.jpg 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45003\" class=\"wp-image-45003 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sobibor2-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sobibor2-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sobibor2-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sobibor2.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-45003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Lambert, right, portraying a German Nazi officer in \u201cSobibor.\u201d (Courtesy of Rosiya Segondiya)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The two-hour film features Konstantin Khabenskiy, one of Russia\u2019s best-known actors, along with an international cast as well as&nbsp;unusually gory visuals. It is based on historical research of the history of the camp in Poland, where SS guards and Ukrainians murdered 250,000 Jews.<\/p>\n<p>The Holocaust and anti-Semitism featured in the submissions of five other European countries: The Netherlands, Austria, Romania, Slovakia and Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch submission is \u201cThe Resistance Banker,\u201d based on the actions of Walraven van Hall, a banker who financed the resistance during Nazi occupation, including efforts to save Jews. He was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations \u2014 Israel\u2019s title for non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust \u2013 in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Austria\u2019s \u201cThe Waldheim Waltz,\u201d by the Austrian-Jewish director Ruth Beckermann, is a biographical drama about&nbsp;former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, and the controversy of his participation and role in the Nazi regime during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians\u201d tells the story of a theater director seeking a re-enactment of the barbaric massacre of thousands of Jews in Odessa by occupying Romanian troops.<\/p>\n<p>Slovakia\u2019s&nbsp;\u201cThe Interpreter\u201d follows&nbsp;a Jewish man\u2019s efforts to find the Nazi officer who may have killed his parents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEldorado,\u201d the Swiss submission, looks at the hardships faced by modern-day immigrants to Europe but juxtaposes their situation with the realities experienced by asylum seekers during World War II, including many Jews.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary\u2019s submission, \u201cSunset,\u201d was directed by Laszlo Nemes, a Jewish-Hungarian filmmaker whose previous feature, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2016\/02\/18\/arts-entertainment\/whats-behind-the-dark-charisma-of-son-of-saul-star-geza-rohrig\">Son of Saul<\/a>,\u201d won the category\u2019s 2016 Oscar. The later film is set in 1913 Budapest and follows the trials of Irisz Leiter, a newcomer to the city whose parents\u2019 shop is burned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout the film, Irisz and those around her make so much of her name that one wonders if the Leiters were Jewish, casting a dark shadow over\u201d the fire, The Hollywood Reporter wrote in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/review\/sunset-review-1139300\">review<\/a>&nbsp;this month. \u201cBut this is never explicitly stated in the film and remains only a possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s submission is \u201cThe Cakemaker,\u201d which centers on a German pastry maker who travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover. It is Israel\u2019s 51st submission to the award; the country has received 10 nominations but has yet to win.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian submission is \u201cGhost Hunting,\u201d a documentary about prisoners from Israeli detention reliving their incarceration and alleged torture.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"This%20year%E2%80%99s%20Oscar%20foreign%20film%20race%20is%20full%20of%20movies%20on%20the%20Holocaust%20and%20anti-Semitism\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139],"tags":[1574,2419,146,8790,8795,8788,1176,458],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45004,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45002\/revisions\/45004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}