Bach in Auschwitz
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Primary Contributor: Michel DaeronEdition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 105 minutes
Release Date: 2000-03-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Winstar
Studio: Winstar
VHS Movie Reviews of Bach in Auschwitz
Movie Review: Correction of my previous review
Summary: 4 Stars
While reviewing the video, Bach in Auschwitz, I made a reference to a book entitled Alma Rose. The book that should be listed is Alma Rose : Vienna to Auschwitz.Movie Review: Actual interviews of people from the book Playing For Time
Summary: 4 Stars
I read the book Playing For Time and was delighted to see that there was a video of the actual people describing their experiences playing music while people were executed in Auschwitz. The video is an excellent documentary of the women's experiences. The book is more critical of the orchestra's leader, Alma Rose than the the women describe in the video. A new book entitled Alma Rose might add more information to the total story. The video is very interesting but has periods that are long and uneventful. This was a horrible time in our world's history. I am delighted that we have this record of the trials that these women experienced so that perhaps this kind of thing will never happen again. I recommend that you purchase this video along with the books, Playing for Time and Alma Rose.
Summary of Bach in Auschwitz
Forty women escaped extermination at Poland's most notorious death camp by playing in a bizarre orchestra that entertained the Nazis and calmed prisoners on their way to the crematoriums. Eleven surviving players are interviewed in this compelling 102-minute documentary that inspired the Emmy-winning television drama Playing for Time, starring Vanessa Redgrave. There is French vocalist, Violette, who describes the privileges of being an orchestra member: larger portions of bread, daily showers versus monthly-- and the possibility of avoiding execution. Or there's Greek Yvette, relocated to the United States, who saw her own parents marched to the ovens as she played piano. Some of the women choose to focus on the music, others on their personal accounts of atrocity. Director Michel Daeron takes care to show each in their current homes and environments, supplementing with old photos. Most devastating are the film's final 22 minutes in which former orchestra members Helena and Zocha walk the fields of the camp, passing the still-standing buildings and finding the ruins of their old barracks. It is there, in the place where it happened, that the women's tales of powerlessness--of playing music while children were taken from their mothers' arms and sent to certain death--are most resonant. --Kimberly HeinrichsWorld War II Video
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