"Your Unknown Brother": Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives

Start Date: September 05 2012 - 01:00 PM

End Date: September 05 2012 - 03:00 PM

Category: Community

Location: Lecture Room: Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives

Description:

1935, Nazi Germany. After being released from a camp for political prisoners, Arnold Clasen returns to Hamburg to lead a quiet life. He contacts Renate, with whom he is still in love. And, although he is aware of the danger of doing so, he begins a friendship with Walter, who is active in the resistance. But as old comrades are arrested one after another, Arnold begins to suspect that Walter, who remains unscathed, has betrayed them.

Based on the novel by Willi Bredel, this landmark film exploring the role of the individual in confronting anti-fascism was invited to the Cannes Film Festival. Ironically (and tellingly) it was withdrawn by the East German authorities, who from that point undermined the artistic activities of Ulrich Weiss, an independent, untamable and unpredictable talent.

Website: http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/khrca/