WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY
Premiere 27.01.2019
Movie description
In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists but with pen and paper. Now, for the first time, their story is told as a feature documentary. WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY mixes the writings of the Oyneg Shabes archive with new interviews, rarely seen footage and stunning dramatizations to transport us inside the Ghetto and the lives of these courageous resistance fighters. They defied their murderous enemy with the ultimate weapon – the truth – and risked everything so that their archive would survive the war, even if they did
not.
WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY
In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists but with pen and paper. Now, for the first time, their story is told as a feature documentary. WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY mixes the writings of the Oyneg Shabes archive with new interviews, rarely seen footage and stunning dramatizations to transport us inside the Ghetto and the lives of these courageous resistance fighters. They defied their murderous enemy with the ultimate weapon – the truth – and risked everything so that their archive would survive the war, even if they did
not.
- Roberta Grossmann Director
- Dyanna Tylor Cinematography
- Richard Wagner Music
- Chris Callister Editor
- Chris Callister Editor
- Frank Gampel, Marek Warszewski Set Design
- Agnieszka Hodowana Make-up
- Aleksandra Staszko Costume design
- Tomasz Morawski Production manager
- Roberta Grossmann, Katahdin Productions Producers
- Nancy Spielberg, Anna Różalska Executive producer
- Match&Spark, ARTE/NDR, EC1 Łódź – Miasto Kultury oraz Warszawski Mazowiecki Fundusz Filmowy Co-producer
- Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej Co-financing
Photos and videos
Awards and nominations
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San Fransisco Jewish Film Festival
Audience Award
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Rome Film Festival
Official selection
