Partisans of Vilna

Partisans of Vilna

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 12, 1986

Runtime

2h 10m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

75%

Original Title

Partisans of Vilna

Production Companies

Ciesla, NEH

Director

Joshua Waletzky

Description

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 from 1939 to 1944 and contemporary interviews with 40 partisan survivors (including Abba Kovner, a founder of the partisan movement and one of Israel's leading poets) the film explores the difficulties of organizing under the anarchic conditions of the ghetto.