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- Release Date: 1986
- Runtime: 130 min
- Genre: Documentary
- Starring: Roberta Wallach, Abba Kovner ... see all
- Director: Joshua Waletzky
- Plot: This extraordinary film tells the story of the men and women who formed the Jewish partisan movement in Vilna, Lithuania, during World War II. Using rare archival film footage dating... Read more
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Not your average Holocaust documentary
Apr 18, 2000
Guy33134 - imdb.com
Apr 18, 2000Guy33134 - imdb.com
Long before Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation started its series of excellent documentaries, and preceding other recent and memorable documentaries on the subject, PARTISANS OF VILLA was produced. Having been put together 15 years ago,with a good number of the survivors... Full review
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| May 05, 2005DVD Talk
It's not exactly the most well-known documentary about the Holocaust, but Josh Waletzky's Partisans of Vilna (1986) is one of the most interestingly told.
Partisans of Vilna will soon celebrate is 20th anniversary, and Docurama has done a terrific job in commemorating such an event.
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The Lithuanian city of Vilna (Vilnius) endured a checkered history, successively claimed by the Russian tsars, the German emperor, Lithuania, Poland, Lithuania again, the Soviet Union and finally, in 1941, by the invading Germans once more. ... Full Article