Into the arms of strangers [videorecording] : stories of the Kindertransport / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; a Sabine Films production ; written and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris ; produced by Deborah Oppenheimer.
Harris, Mark Jonathan, 1941-; Oppenheimer, Deborah.; Dench, Judi, 1934-; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Sabine Films.; Warner Home Video (Firm)
2000
DS135.G5 A1435 2001
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Title Into the arms of strangers [videorecording] : stories of the Kindertransport / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; a Sabine Films production ; written and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris ; produced by Deborah Oppenheimer.
ISBN 079075309X
9780790753096
Publication Details Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Pictures : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2000, 2001.
Language English
Language Note In English or French, with optional subtitles in English, French, or Spanish ; closed-captioned.
Description 1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Item Number 085391887225
Call Number DS135.G5 A1435 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 941/.004924/0092
Distributor No. 18872 Warner Home Video
Summary The documentary tells the story of a group of children from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia who were fortunate enough to escape the unfathomable horror of the genocide perpetrated against the Jewish people during WWII. They were saved by the Kindertransport, which took 10,000 children to the safety of England in the late 1930s. (The United States government, which could have sponsored a similar program, declined to do so.) Assuming that the broad historical context is well enough known, the film concentrates on individual stories, using archival film clips and photographs, re-enactments and interviews, with both the rescuers and the rescued.
Note This film was produced with the cooperation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
Special features: Cast & crew [text feature]; Producer Deborah Oppenheimer and writer/director Mark Jonathan Harris commentary; Editor Kate Amend, sound designer Gary Rydstrom, archival researcher Corrinne Collett and composer Lee Holdridge commentary; Lord Richard Attenborough interview; Additional interviews; Photo gallery; The kinder [text feature]; The parents [text feature]; The rescuers [text feature]; Awards [text feature]; Premiere footage (10 min.); Historical artifacts (5 min.) [film and slide show feature]; Theatrical trailer (2 min.); DVD-ROM features: links to original theatrical website and chat rooms; downloadable study guide for viewers and educators via the website.
Narrated by Judi Dench ; with Kurt Fuchel, Lore Segal, Ursula Rosenfeld, Nicholas Winton, Norbert Wollheim, Bertha Leverton, Lorraine Allard, Alexander Gordon, Jack Hellman, Lory Cahn, Hedy Epstein ... [et. al.].
Credits Edited by Kate Amend ; director of photography, Don Lenzer ; music by Lee Holdridge.
Audience MPAA rating: Rated PG.
System Details Note DVD, Region 1, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo, original presentation aspect ratio, 1.37:1.
Awards Academy Award, 2001for Best Documentary, Features (Mark Jonathan Harris, Deborah Oppenheimer) ; American Cinema Editors, 2001: Best Edited Documentary Film (Kate Amend).
Added Author Harris, Mark Jonathan, 1941-
Oppenheimer, Deborah.
Dench, Judi, 1934-
Added Corporate Author Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )
Sabine Films.
Warner Home Video (Firm)
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Prologue
Pride and joy
Life under Hitler
Invasion of Austria
Where to flee
Ninth of November
Birth of the Kindertransport
The Kinder
Preparing to leave
Last goodbyes
The journey
Arrival in England
Kurt and Mariam
Hostels and manors
Dear parents
On the shoulders of children
War
Somewhere to belong
The Dunera
Deportation to the camps
The Coventry blitz
Work of importance
Family reunion
War's end
Survival is an accident
Another set of parents
Living with the past
Coda and end credits.

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