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“This picture is a little horrific”. The story of a film, or the Polish nation face-to-face with the Jew
Iwona Kurz
redakcja@holocaustresearch.pl BioPh. D. in the Institute of Polish Culture of Warsaw University; published among others: Twarze w tłumie. Wizerunki bohaterów wyobraźni zbiorowej w kulturze polskiej 1955-1969 (Warsaw, 2005), nominated for the „Nike” Award, Bolesław Michałek Award); Obyczaje polskie. Wiek XX w krótkich hasłach (co-author, Warsaw, 2008). Research interest: the history of modern Polish cultures viewed through film and photography, film and photography as media of memory.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7180-8670
Institute of Polish Culture, Warsaw University
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, 2010: Holocaust Studies and Materials, pages: 420-438
Publication date: 2010-11-30
Abstract
The article is an analysis of Janusz Nasfeter’s film, Długa noc [A Long Night] (1967), and the discussion during the producer’s screening in June 1967, concerning the film’s merit and approving its distribution. Both the subject matter of the film (helping a Jew hiding in a Polish home during the occupation) and the circumstances of its producer’s screening (several days after the Israeli victory in the Six-Day War) enable it to be seen as a model: the film itself and its reception are largely characteristic of the Polish memory and attitudes to the Jews during the war, its forms of expression in Polish film, and the language of public debate on this issue.
Keywords
Polish-Jewish relations, representation of the Holocaust in film, visual memory
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Other articles by the same auhtor(s)
- Iwona Kurz, “This picture is a little horrific”. The story of a film, or the Polish nation face-to-face with the Jew) , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 4 (2008)
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