First Films of the Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and the Genocide of the Jews, 1938–1946

Contents

V Acknowledgments vii A Note on Transliteration ix Introduction 1 1. “Right off the Top of the News”: Professor Mamlock and Soviet Antifascist Film 18 2. “The Beasts Have Taken Aim at Us”: Soviet Newsreels Screen the War and the Holocaust 44 3. Imagining Occupation: Partisans and Spectral Jews 79 4. Dovzhenko: Moving the Boundaries of the Acceptable 107 5. Mark Donskoi’s Reconstruction of Babyi Iar: The Unvanquished 134 6. Liberation of the Camps 157 7. “The Dead Never Lie”: Soviet Film, the Nuremberg Tribunal, and the Holocaust 186 Epilogue 211 Notes 219 Bibliography 267 Filmography 285 Index 289 CONTENTS ...