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A depiction of the last living generation of German participants in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.
A delve into the character and life of Albert Maysles, who, alongside his brother David, created some of the most well-known and iconic documentaries of the 20th century. Film extracts include Meet Marlon Brando (1965), Salesman (1968), Gimme Shelter (1970), and Grey Gardens (1975).
Newly discovered amateur color footage of the 1939 Cultural Festival in Munich attended by Hitler six weeks before the outbreak of World War II is reviewed and remembered by survivors who were also there.
Storyville filmmaker Luke Holland, who has lived in Ditchling on the East Sussex Downs for the last ten years, explores aspects of village life past and present. He begins with a look at how economic uncertainty and the controversial ban on hunting with hounds have adversely affected a local farming family.
"I was Hitler's slave" portrays Silesian-born Rudi Karmeinski, who was kidnapped at the age of 13 years with his father by the Nazis and forced to work in the IG Farben factory Auschwitz-Monowitz. His father was killed there. Karmeinski survived, emigrated to England and changed its name to Rudy Kennedy. The documentary follows Kennedy's five year fight for the compensation of forced laborers.
In a documentary about living with cancer rather than dying of the disease, film-maker Luke Holland chronicles his brother Peter's five-year battle with terminal myeloma, a rare form of bone-marrow cancer. It is also a love story, charting the ups and downs of the relationship between Peter and his partner Jeanette as the illness progresses.
In 1939, Kalman, an ambitious young businessman, leaves Europe to join his sister Samantha in Palestine. She lives with Dov, an idealistic architect obsessed with the Bauhaus style. With their friends, they form a group, which discusses the future Israeli State.
