The Last Days
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Directed by | James Moll |
Produced by | June Beallor Kenneth Lipper |
Music by | Hans Zimmer |
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Running time | 87 min. |
Languages | English, German and Hungarian |
The Last Days is a documentary, directed by James Moll and produced by June Beallor and Kenneth Lipper in 1998. Steven Spielberg was one of the executive producers, in his role as founder of the Shoah Foundation. The film tells the stories of five Hungarian Jews during the Shoah. It focuses on the horrors of life in the Nazi concentration camps, but also stresses the optimism and desire to survive of the survivors.
The film won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.[1]
Shoah survivors Bill Basch, Irene Zisblatt, Renee Firestone, Alice Lok Cahana, Tom Lantos, Dario Gabbai and Randolph Braham are featured in the film.
See also
References
- ^ "New York Times • The Last Days". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-11-22.
External links
Categories:
- 1998 films
- American films
- English-language films
- American black-and-white films
- American documentary films
- Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners
- Documentary films about the Holocaust
- The Holocaust in Hungary
- 1990s documentary films
- Films scored by Hans Zimmer
- Films directed by James Moll
- Jewish Hungarian history
- Historical documentary film stubs
- Holocaust stubs