Forgotten Transports in Copenhagen/Again
The Czech Embassy to Denmark has asked us to recommend the documentary film series written, researched and directed by Lukáš Přibyl. One part was shown in Copenhagen in January, with such a success that the remaining three now are to be presented. The series is unique – take a look at our review of the series from 2009. Here is what the Embassy’s press release says:
When the Holocaust is mentioned, people recall images of tattooed numbers on forearms, children in striped uniforms in Auschwitz or Hitler’s speeches. Forgotten Transports have none of that. “You won’t see Hitler in my films,” says Lukáš Přibyl. “What I’m interested in is when you take a person from a relatively normal life and suddenly throw them into completely apocalyptic conditions – how does that person react?”
Each of the four films focuses on one unique “mode of survival” in the extreme conditions of the camps in Latvia, Belarus, Estonia and Poland. The films employ no present-day footage, only authentic, meticulously researched time-and-place precise materials and the words of witnesses. Out of tens of thousands of Czech Jews deported to the forgotten places in the east, fewer than 300 survived. Lukáš Přibyl managed to find over 70 of them and most of them told their stories for the first time… Based on 400 hours of interviews recorded in 20 countries and 10 years of work, the series offers a surprising picture of survival “as we don’t know it”.
Tuesday 22 February 2011 at 19:00: Forgotten Transports to Belarus: Men Who Fought
Tuesday 1 March 2011 at 19:00: Forgotten Transports to Latvia: Family Strength
Tuesday 8 March 2011 at 19:00: Forgotten Transports to Poland: The Human Spirit
… in Husets Biograf, Copenhagen
