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Strange victory
Title
Strange victory / Target Films presents ; scenario by Leo Hurwitz ; narration written by Saul Levitt ; produced by Barnet L. Rosset, Jr. ; directed by Leo Hurwitz.
ISBN
9781933920962
1933920963
Edition
[Blu-ray version]
Publication
[Harrington Park, New Jersey] : Milestone Film & Video, [2018]
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
1 videodisc (64 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Medium
4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally release in 1948 as a documentary film.
Title from the container and disc.
Bonus features include: Hurwitz's stunning 1964 epilogue to Strange Victory celebrating the Civil Rights Movement; Hurwitz speaking about Strange Victory, courtesy of Ingela Romare, from her 1992 film, On Time, Art, Love, and Trees: A Meeting with Leo T. Hurwitz; Barney Rosset speaking about Strange Victory, courtesy of CUNY TV City Cinematheque and interviewer Jerry Carlson; Six films from Hurwitz's years as a cinematographer with the Worker's Film and Photo League and Nykino, courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC.
Photography, Peter Glushanok, George Jacobson ; music, David Diamond ; editor, Leo Hurwitz.
Summary
"Strange victory showed that US servicemen returning home from defeating a racist and genocidal regime found their own country plagued by Jim Crow, anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism and xenophobia. One of the great artists of the cinema, Hurwitz combined documentary footage of World War II battles, refugees, and the Nuremberg trials with powerful portrayals of a divided postwar America"--Container.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 24, 2018
Series
The milestone cinematheque
Credits
Photography, Peter Glushanok, George Jacobson ; music, David Diamond ; editor, Leo Hurwitz.
Performers
Narrators: Alfred Drake, Muriel Smith, Gary Merrill, and others.
System details note
Blu-ray.
Videorecording number
MileBD00157 Milestone Film & Video
Subjects
Genre/Form
Documentary films.
Experimental films.
Documentary films.
Experimental films.
History.
Also listed under
Target Films, production company.
Milestone Film & Video, publisher, distributor.
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