Long Is the Road

Long Is the Road

First Post-War Jewish Film From Europe! Dialogue in English, German, Yiddish and Polish

1948 · 77 min · ★ 7.0 · History, Drama

The first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp in U.S.-occupied Germany, and mixing neorealist and expressionist styles, the film follows a Polish Jew and his family from pre-war Warsaw through Auschwitz and the DP camps.

Directed by Herbert B. Fredersdorf · Written by Israel Becker

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