Video: Alexander Rodnyansky and Kevin Macdonald will shoot a documentary
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Alexander Rodnyansky and Kevin MacDonald will shoot a documentary about the attempts to save millions of Jews from the Nazis even before the start of the war. Producer Alexander Rodnyansky decided to remind everyone of this by filming a new film about those events. To work on this tape, he decided to involve producer Rosanna Korenberg and director Kevin MacDonald, winner of the prestigious Oscar.
In this film, they plan to show how difficult life was for Jews who decided to flee Austria, Germany, and also occupied Czechoslovakia at that time. They tried to find a country where they would be safe, where they would be accepted. In 1938, an international conference was held in Evian, France, where for the first time attention was paid to the problems of the Jews and their further fate. In total, 32 countries took part in this conference, but only one country agreed to accept part of the fugitive Jews, and it turned out to be the Dominican Republic. Neither Britain nor the United States of America was willing to help. In addition, even when the ship with the refugees left for Cuba in 1939, passengers were not allowed to disembark here, nor were they accepted into the United States. As a result, the ship, which carried 900 Jews, returned to Europe. Here most of these people were killed by the Nazis. The next attempt to save Jews took place at the Bermuda Conference in 1943, but this event was also not successful.
The film, which will remind the whole world of the tragic events caused by nationalistic, xenophobic statements, was decided to be filmed as a reminder of the tragic consequences of all this. This is very important at this particular time, since many modern people and Western politicians have the same rhetoric as in the situation with the Jews. Perhaps this film will help prevent another similar tragedy.
The film, which tells about the tragic fate of the Jewish people and indifference, will be the second project of Alexander Rodnyansky's company. Earlier it talked about the desire to create a film based on the real interrogations of Saddam Hussein. As the director of this film with the title "Interrogation of the President" they decided to attract Ziad Dueri, nominated for the film "Insult" for the "Oscar".
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