Krasnodar: Trial of 1943 Movie Review 1987

Combines German and Soviet newsreel and documentary footage to tell of the German occupation of the Russian city of Krasnodar during a six-month period from August 1942 to February 1943. During this time, out of a city of 500,000 inhabitants, the Nazis murdered 13,000 Soviets and every member of the Jewish community. In July 1943 the Soviets conducted the first WWII war crimes trials against 11 Russian collaborators. Features the testimony of both eyewitnesses and of the Russian war crimes defendants. In English and German with English subtitles.

Distribution

National Center for Jewish Film, Brandeis University, Lown Bldg. 102 MS 053, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, Phone: (781)899-7044, Fax: (781)736-2070, Email: ncjf@logos.cc.brandeis.edu, URL: http://www.jewishfilm.org

Available on VHS
Running time 55 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Documentary Films, World War II, Judaism

Director

Irmgard von zur Muhlen, Bengt von zur Muhlen