Nazi Death Marches

Saturday, September 17 at 17:15

Art kino Croatia

Director: Virginie Linhart

Producer: Amélie Juan, Carlos Pinsky

Country of origin: France, 2021

Runtime: 90'

SUMMARY

The death marches have often been treated as an epilog to the Nazis’ policy of extermination. But in recent years, historians have been looking into the subject to analyze its workings and specific logic. Their combined research has shown this episode of the Second World War in a fresh light. Now, this documentary sets out to reveal the true story of the death marches, a story which is essential to tell.

Director Biography

Virginie Linhart is a documentary writer and director. She obtained a diploma from Paris’s Institute for Political Studies and a doctorate in Political Sociology from the same institution. The following is an unexhaustive list of her films: • Françoise Dolto, au nom de l’enfant (doc 60’ – France 2, 2018) – Selected at the Fipadoc festival in 2019 • Brigitte Macron, un roman français (doc 90’ – France 3, 2018) • Jeanne Moreau, l’affranchie (doc 52’ – Arte 2018) – Awarded : Prix du documentaire Histoire du cinéma Pessac 2018 • Angela Merkel, une histoire allemande (doc 52’ – France 5, 2017) • 21 rue La Boétie (doc 52’ – France 5, 2017) • Sarajevo, des enfants dans la guerre (doc 52’- France 3, 2014) • Ce qu’ils savaient. Les Alliés face à la Shoah (doc 70’- France 3, 2012) – Awarded : Etoiles de la SCAM 2013 • Après les camps, la vie… (doc 75’– France 2, 2010)

ISTRA FILM presents HISTORY FILM FESTIVAL

Program manager and director TIHA MODRIĆ

Producers TIHA MODRIĆ & DEJAN BOJC

Video production ROBERT KALČIĆ & IGOR MODRIĆ

Designer ROBERT KRANČIĆ

Photography RINO GROPUZZO

Graphic & web design GRAFIK, Rijeka