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Film details

WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY

Premiere: 27.01.2019

Director:Roberta Grossmann

Producer:Roberta Grossman, Katahdin Productions

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.

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.

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Cast

Crew

Director

Roberta Grossmann

Cinematography

Dyanna Tylor

Music

Richard Wagner

Editor

Chris Callister

Set Design

Frank Gampel, Marek Warszewski

Make-up

Agnieszka Hodowana

Costume design

Aleksandra Staszko

Production manager

Tomasz Morawski

Producers

Roberta Grossmann, Katahdin Productions

Executive producer

Nancy Spielberg, Anna Różalska

Co-producer

Match&Spark, ARTE/NDR, EC1 Łódź – Miasto Kultury oraz Warszawski Mazowiecki Fundusz Filmowy

Co-financing

Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej

Awards & festivals

San Fransisco Jewish Film Festival

Audience Award

Rome Film Festival

Official selection

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