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Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

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Daniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject: Hollywood’s complicated, often contradictory relationship with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. The questions it raises go right the very nature of how film functions in our culture, and while hardly exhaustive, Anker’s film makes for a good, thought provoking starting point.

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Status: Released

Released Date: 2004-01-01

Runtime: 92 mins

Director: Daniel Anker

Spoken language: English

Genres: Documentary, History

Original title: Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

Production Companies: Anker Productions Inc.

Production Countries: United States of America

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