You Are Free (film)

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You Are Free
Directed by
Produced by
  • Dea Brokman
  • Ilene Landis
Release date
  • 1983 (1983)
Running time
20 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

You Are Free (German : Ihr zent frei) is a 1983 West German short documentary film directed by Dea Brokman, in which five former U.S. Servicemen and a prison camp survivor provide accounts of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps in 1945. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. [1] [2]

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References

  1. "The 56th Academy Awards (1984) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
  2. "NY Times: You Are Free". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . 2012. Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2008.