Long Is the Road

Long Is the Road (1948)

Lang ist der Weg

First Post-War Jewish Film From Europe! Dialogue in English, German, Yiddish and Polish

The first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp in U.S.-occupied Germany, and mixing neorealist and expressionist styles, the film follows a Polish Jew and his family from pre-war Warsaw through Auschwitz and the DP camps.

Date of release
1948-11-11
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 17m
Genres
History, Drama
Director
Herbert B. Fredersdorf, Marek Goldstein

Casting

Interesting facts

Long Is the Road is a 1948 German drama film directed by Herbert B. Fredersdorf and Marek Goldstein and starring Israel Becker, Bettina Moissi and Berta Litwina. The story examines the Holocaust from the perspective of a Polish Jewish family and a young man who is able to escape while he is transported to a concentration camp. The film was made during the summer of 1947. It was the first German-made film to directly portray the Holocaust. It was made with the support of the US Army Information Control Division. It was partly shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich with sets designed by the art director Carl Ludwig Kirmse.

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