The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments — ix 1 Screening the Holocaust in the Soviet Union: Jews without the Holocaust and the Holocaust without the Jews — 1 2 Soviet Antifascist Films of the 1930s: The Earliest Images of Nazi Anti-Semitism and Concentration Camps on World Screens — 13 3 The First Phantom: I Will Live! (1942) — 29 4 How a Soviet Novel Turned into a Jewish Film: The First Depiction of the Holocaust on Soviet Screens, The Unvanquished (1945) — 40 5 The Holocaust on the Thawing Screens: From The Fate of a Man (1959) to Ordinary Fascism (1965) — 57 6 The Holocaust at the Lithuanian Film Studio: Gott mit Uns (1961) — 71 7 The Holocaust without the Jews: Steps in the Night (1962) and Other Films — 82 8 Kalik versus Goskino: Goodbye, Boys! (1964/1966) — 91 9 Stalemate (1965) between the Filmmaker and the Censors — 102 10 Kalik’s Last Phantom: King Matt and the Old Doctor (1966) — 115 11 The Film That Cost a Career: Eastern Corridor (1966) — 127 12 Muslims Instead of Musslmans: Sons of the Fatherland (1968) — 145 13 Commissar (1967/1988): The End of the Thaw — 158 14 An Alternative Track: Jewish Soldiers Fighting on Soviet Screens — 173 15 The Last Phantom—the First Film: Our Father (1966/1990) — 190 viii Contents 16 Perestroika and Beyond: Old Wine in New Bottles? — 206 17 Conclusions — 223 Abbreviations and Acronyms — 229 Notes — 231 Index — 269 ...