Genocide (1981 film)

1982 film by Arnold Schwartzman

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]
Cinematography| Peter Shillingford
Edited by| Bob Jenkis
Music by| Elmer Bernstein[4][5]

Production
company

Moriah Films

Distributed by| United Artists Classics (United States and Canada)[6]
Manson International (International[6]

Release date

* 1981 (1981)

Running time

| 90 minutes
Country| United States
Language| English

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

## Summary

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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

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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]

## See also

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* 1981 in film
* List of Holocaust films

## References

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1. ^ FilmAffinity
2. ^ Documentary Winners: 1982 Oscars
3. ^ TCM.com
4. ^ Genocide - Elmer Bernstein|AllMusic
5. ^ Genocide - Intrada
6. ^ a b "Genocide (1982)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
7. ^ "Arnold Schwartzman, OBE, Filmmaker, Designer, Author". CTC. Archived from the original on January 20, 2013. Retrieved November 16, 2008.
8. ^ BFI
9. ^ WorldCat.org
10. ^ "'Genocide', View of Holocaust". The New York Times.
11. ^ "Cinema: Hell Enough". Time.
12. ^ "The Unorthodox Rabbi : By Invoking the Holocaust and Bullying the Establishment, Marvin Hier Has Made The Simon Wiesenthal Center the Most Visible Jewish Organization in the World". Los Angeles Times. July 15, 1990. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
13. ^ 1982|Oscars.org
14. ^ Genocide - Trailer - YouTube
15. ^ The Most Powerful Documentaries About the Holocaust - MovieWeb

## External links

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* Genocide at IMDb
* Genocide at Moriah Films
* Emanuel Levy's review of the 1981 Oscar-winning documentary film

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