Genocide (1981 film)

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Genocide
Directed by Arnold Schwartzman
Written by Martin Gilbert
Marvin Hier
Arnold Schwartzman [1]
Produced by Rabbi Marvin Hier
Arnold Schwartzman [2]
Narrated by Elizabeth Taylor
Orson Welles [3]
CinematographyPeter Shillingford
Edited byBob Jenkis
Music by Elmer Bernstein [4] [5]
Production
company
Distributed by United Artists Classics [6]
Release date
1981
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Genocide is a 1981 American documentary by Arnold Schwartzman. [7] [8]

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Summary

The film documents the history of the Holocaust and the reminiscences of those who survived it in support of the fact that, as one of the survivors stated, it can happen again with the rise of anti-Semitism. [9] [10] [11]

Reception and legacy

Michael Berenbaum, project director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum described the movie as "a substantive piece of work" but "watching it is like sitting in a dentist's chair where the drill begins at the first moment and doesn't let up till the end of the two hours. If it had, it might have been more effective. In a real sense, that is Marvin Hier." [12]

It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, [13] the first Holocaust film to win such an honor. [14] [15]

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