Forgotten Transports: To Estonia
Synopsis:
On September 5, 1942, a transport of a thousand Czech Jews arrives at the tiny village of Raasiku. Nazi officers immediately separate out several dozen young women. As their families board blue buses, the girls are required to help load the luggage onto trucks. When they finally reach the Jägala concentration camp, they are in for a shock. Their families, as the commandant announces to them after a thorough body search, have been sent to a better-equipped, heated camp...More
Making the Film:
The process of film production was preceded and accompanied by hundreds of hours of archival research. Before this documentary was being made, one has to remember that there almost no written studies on these camps and ghettos. For the film to raise qualified questions and draw correct conclusions on the historical context beyond knowledge of individual witnesses, tens of thousands of pages of documents in many world archives had to be inspected and scrutinized. More
Awards:
Audience Award - ONE WORLD 2009 (Europe's largest International Human Rights Documentary Festival)
Film Details:
Country of Origin: Czech Republic 2008
Original Language: English and Czech with English subtitles
Running Time:85 minutes
Director: Lukáš Přibyl
Screenplay: Lukáš Přibyl
Dir. Of Photography: Jakub Šimůnek
Music: Petr Ostrouchov
Editor: Vladimír Barák
Producers: Lukáš Přibyl, Ondřej Trojan
Production: Lukáš Přibyl, Total HelpArt T.H.A.
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