ID

FBW001287      Documentary

Country / Year

Great Britain / USA, 1945

Original Title

The True Glory

Other Title(s)

Der wahre Ruhm (German)
The True Glory - From D-Day to the Fall of Berlin

Directed by

Carol Reed, Garson Kanin

Produced by

Allied Film Unit / Ministry of Information, London / Office of War Information

Staff

Script: Eris Maschwitz, Arthur MacRae, Gerald Kersh, Guy Trosper, Jenny Nicholson, Harry Brown, Saul Levitt, Frank Harvey, Peter Ustinov; Camera: Alan Reed, Garson Kanin; Editing: Alan Reed, Garson Kanin; Music: William Alwyn

Length

100' oder 87'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 00 Sep 1945: Premiere

Abstract

A montage film about the last year of the war: from the beginning of the Normandy invasion until Germany`s surrender.

Subject Terms

Allies; Liberation of the camps; Liberation from the Nazi rule; Berlin; France; End of war; Camps; Normandy; Extermination camps; World War II

Bibliography

- Skirball, Sheba F.: Films of the Holocaust. An Annotated Filmography of Collections in Israel. New York, NY: Garland, 1990
- Grob, Norbert (Hg.): Das Jahr 1945 und das Kino. Berlin: Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek, 1995