Beyond Hitler’s Grasp

DVDOR15
Director:Nitzan Aviran
Premiere:1. March 2018
Length:67 minutes
Genre:Document

Beyond Hitler’s Grasp

Извън хватката на Хитлер; Nitzan Aviran, 1999, OV (ang.) + ST (bul.; Nitzan Aviran, 1999, versions: OR,

Film in original version, in english with bulgarian subtitles!

Director: Nitzan Aviran • Scenario: Nitzan Aviran • Camera: Joram Millo • Podľa predlohy: Michael Bar-Zohar

Beyond Hitler’s Grasp is a Holocaust film with a happy ending. The film tells the story of Bulgaria – a small and somehow forgotten European country which managed to protect a minority in its midst from annihilation. Bulgaria was a member of Nazi Germany’s Axis during World War Two. It had a pro-Nazi government and the Nuremberg laws were applied against the Bulgarian Jews. Nevertheless, despite constant pressure, sometimes directly from Hitler, Bulgaria managed not to send its Jews to the German death camps. Beyond Hitler’s Grasp describes how for a period of more than three years, the Bulgarian people succeeded to evade Nazi demands regarding the Bulgarian Jews. How parliamentarism at its best functioned when the inhabitants of the small town of Kyustendil sent their representative to parliament to force the cancellation of the plan to deport Jews to death camps. How the Bulgarian Church managed to act as one would expect a religious institution to, in the face of a brutally inhuman and powerful regime; and how simple farmers, intellectuals, clergymen, merchants, laborers and union leaders succeeded in forcing their King to change his policy in favor of the Jews.

Length: 67 min

Year: 1999
Local premiere date: 1. March 2018

Country of origin:

  • Israel
  • Bulgaria

Language version:

OR - Original version

Film in original version, in english with bulgarian subtitles!

Director: Nitzan Aviran • Scenario: Nitzan Aviran • Camera: Joram Millo • Podľa predlohy: Michael Bar-Zohar

Beyond Hitler’s Grasp is a Holocaust film with a happy ending. The film tells the story of Bulgaria – a small and somehow forgotten European country which managed to protect a minority in its midst from annihilation. Bulgaria was a member of Nazi Germany’s Axis during World War Two. It had a pro-Nazi government and the Nuremberg laws were applied against the Bulgarian Jews. Nevertheless, despite constant pressure, sometimes directly from Hitler, Bulgaria managed not to send its Jews to the German death camps. Beyond Hitler’s Grasp describes how for a period of more than three years, the Bulgarian people succeeded to evade Nazi demands regarding the Bulgarian Jews. How parliamentarism at its best functioned when the inhabitants of the small town of Kyustendil sent their representative to parliament to force the cancellation of the plan to deport Jews to death camps. How the Bulgarian Church managed to act as one would expect a religious institution to, in the face of a brutally inhuman and powerful regime; and how simple farmers, intellectuals, clergymen, merchants, laborers and union leaders succeeded in forcing their King to change his policy in favor of the Jews.

Year: 1999
Local premiere date: 1. March 2018

Country of origin:

  • Israel
  • Bulgaria

Language version:

OR - Original version