Fritz Bauer Institut · Cinematography of the Holocaust


Liebe Perla. D: Rozen [IL, 1999]

ID

FBW002865      Documentary

Country / Year

Israel, 1999

Original Title

Liebe Perla

Directed by

Shahar Rozen

Produced by

Eden Productions Ltd.; in partnership with Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), Hamburg / Keshet Broadcasting / New Israeli Foundation For Film And Television

Staff

Producer: Edna Kowarsky; Production manager: Orli Nathan, Maurice Tszorf (in Germany and Poland); Secretary: Sarit Mahlev (Typing); Bookkeeping: Efi Grinfield (Accountant), Hanan Grinfield (Accountant); Script: Shahar Rozen; Text: Shmuel Hoffmann (German Transcription), Antje Eiger (German Transcription), Yael Badarshi (German Transcription); Translation: Tal Haran (English); Camera: Sharon De Mayo; Camera, var: Shahar Rozen (Additional Photography); Editing: Rebecca Yogev; Assistant editing: Yael Badarshi, Amos Ponger, Anat Kirchuck (On-Line editing); Editing, var: Evelyn Kaplun (Digitation), Tali Halter Shenkar (Preliminary editing); Sound: Ulla Kösterke, Gil Ben Ze'ev; Title graphics: Michal Gilad; Music: Effi Shoshani; Musical adaptation: Ulla Kösterke, Elana Grushka; Musiv, var: Vitaly Podolsky (Accordion player); Legal consultant: Tony Greenman; Research: Moritz Terfloth (in Germany and Poland)

Mentioned

Josef Mengele; Ludwig Feld; Martina Puzina

Statement(s) by

Piroshka Owitz (Perla)

Length

63'

Format

Video

Abstract

This is a story of a friendship between two very short women. Perla, an actress, is the last living member of a Jewish family of dwarfs that survived Mengele's experiments in Auschwitz. Hannelore, a German Protestant born in post-war Germany. Hannelore sets out on a quest to fulfill Perla's wish - to search for a lost Nazi film featuring Perla's family, standing naked on stage, before a group of high ranking SS officers as an object of research. Engaged in her investigation, she believes to discover comparisons between the Nazi's attempts to create a master race and today's aborted fetuses and babies killed when they are found to be "abnormal".

Subject Terms

1940-1949; 1990-1999; Auschwitz II; Auschwitz III; Auschwitz after liberation; Berlin; Euthanasia; Frankfurt am Main; Haifa; Hamburg; Survivors of the Holocaust; Israel; Medical experiments; Mengele twins; Poland; Selektion; Camp physicians; Yad Vashem; Twin experiments

Holdings

- Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), Hamburg: 63'
- Cinephil-Philippa Kowarsky Productions Ltd.: 63'

Distributor

Cinephil-Philippa Kowarsky Productions Ltd. (initially)
Cinephil-Philippa Kowarsky Productions Ltd. (current)

Credits

- 1. Keshet Broadcasting
- 2. Eden Productions
- 3. A film by Shahar Rozen
- 4. Producer Edna Kowarsky
- 5. Camera Sharon De Mayo
- 6. Editing Rebecca Yogev
- 7. Liebe Perla,
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- 1. This film is dedicated / to Perla and the / Ovici family
- 2. And to all the little people / who have been to / Auschwitz-Birkenau
- 3. Producer / Edna Kowarsky / Director / Shahar Rozen / Camera / Sharon De Mayo / Editing / Rebecca Yogev / Original music / Effi Shoshani / Sound editing and mix / Elana Grushka / On-Line editing / Anat Kirchuck / Additional photography / Shahar Rozen / Preliminary editing / Tali Halter Shenkar / Production manager / Orli Nathan / Research / Moritz Terfloth / Production manager in Germany / and Poland / Maurice Tszorf / Sound / Ulla Kösterke / Gil Ben-Ze'ev / Editing assistants / Yael Badarshi / Amos Ponger / Digitation / Evelyn Kaplun / Accordion player / Vitaly Podolsky / Titles design / Michal Gilad / English Translation / Tal Haran / German transcription / Shmuel Hoffmann / Antje Eiger / Yael Badarshi / Typing / Sarit Mahlev / Legal advisor / Tony Greenman / Accountants / Grinfield Efi and Hanan / International distribution / Cinephil-Philippa Kowarsky / Productions Ltd. / Camera equipment / Hanit Video-Net / Sound equipment / Utopia / Edit Studios / Edit Ltd. - Sasha Franklin / Sound Studios / Jungle Sound Post Productions / Translation productions / Video Sport Ltd. / THANKS / Johanna Prenner / Orna Ben Dor / Ayelet Kafri / Pnina Blayer / Amos Dolev - Goehte Institute / Rainer Hauswith - Goethe Insitute / Yad Vashem / The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' / Remembrance Authority / Archiv der Westfälischen Wilhelms / Universität Münster / Prof. Dr. Peter Kröner / Institut für Theorie / und Geschichte der Medizin / Frau Raabe / Internationaler Suchdienst Arolsen / Archiv der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft / Bundesarchiv Berlin / Herr Voigt - Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv / Staatsanwältin Ursula Solf / Staatsanwaltschaft Frankfurt am Main / Panstwowe Muzeum Oswiecim Brzezinka / Reinhard Strecker / Annegret Ehmanm / Bengt Von Zur Mühlen / Wilhelm Brasse / Posner Gerald / Ernst Klee / Lufthansa / Frankfurt International Airport / Lot Polish Airlines / Scandic Crown Hotel Savoy Frankfurt / Berlin Mark Hotel / Transit Film GmbH / Hyundai / Rita Goldman / May Rigler / Gil Mitrany-Opus Productions Ltd. / Nitsan Aviram / Simcha Stein / Rachel Marom - Ghetto Fighter's Museum / Israel Airports Authority / Arkia / Itzhak Artzi / Elisheva Vruman / Tamar Hagay / Ziva and Shlomo Lahat / Talia Goshen / Yoni Tzruya / Dani Dror / Dany Wool / Elinor Kowarsky / Raanan Alexandrowich / Rani Carmeli / Hadar Seagel
- 4. [EII] / Eden Productions / In Co-production with / NDR Germany
- 5. [...] / Keshet Broadcasting