Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004)

6.6/10 92 min Documentary History

Overview

Daniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject: Hollywood’s complicated, often contradictory relationship with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. The questions it raises go right the very nature of how film functions in our culture, and while hardly exhaustive, Anker’s film makes for a good, thought provoking starting point.

Cast

Gene Hackman

Narrator

Norma Barzman

Self

Robert Clary

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Dan Curtis

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Ralph Edwards

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Ralph Fiennes

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Ben Kingsley

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Sidney Lumet

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Branko Lustig

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Abby Mann

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Vincent Sherman

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Steven Spielberg

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Rod Steiger

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George Stevens Jr.

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Fritz Weaver

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