ID

FBW002693      Documentary

Country / Year

USA, 1956

Original Title

The Museum and the Fury

Directed by

Leo Hurwitz

Produced by

Film Frontiers, New York, NY

Staff

Producer: Leo Hurwitz; Co-director: Peggy Lawson (Associate director); Continuity: Leo Hurwitz; Musical direction: Leah Rabinowitz; Narration: Thomas McGrath; Voice: Josephine Kirk

Length

60'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 00 00.1960: Copyright

Abstract

From the perspective of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, documentary material, amongst this the freeing of the camp and the Nuremberg Trials with clips from films which were produced shortly after the war, and pictures of museum visitors are assembled into an essay about memory.

Subject Terms

1940-1949; Nuclear weapons; Auschwitz (Entire camp complex); Auschwitz after liberation; Liberation of Auschwitz; Hiroshima; Crematoria; Nagasaki; Nuremberg trial; Panstwowe Muzeum (Oswiecim); Warsaw (Ghetto)

Bibliography

- Zimmermann, Verena: Leo Hurwitz. Basel: Le Bon Film / Zürich, Filmpodium, 1983

Credits

- 1. THE MUSEUM / OF MODERN ART / FILM LIBRARY
- 2. film frontiers / presents
- 3. the MUSEUM / and the FURY
- 4. Script / written by LEO HURWITZ / narration / written by THOMAS McGRATH
- 5. associate director / PEGGY LAWSON / musical director LEAH RABINOWITZ / voice JOSEPHINE KIRK / music by BAIRD, JANACEK, KIESEWETTER, / LUTOSLAWSKI SHOSTAKOVICH / and POLISH FOLK SONGS / the actualities were provided / from the archives of film polski. / 1960
- 6. produced / directed / and edited / by LEO HURWITZ
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