The Long Way Home
by Mark Jonathan Harris
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Actor: Edward Asner, Martin Landau, Miriam Margolyes, Morgan Freeman, Sean AstinDirector: Mark Jonathan Harris
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Running Time: 119 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-08-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Vanguard Cinema
Movie Reviews of The Long Way Home
Movie Review: After the happy ending
Summary: 5 Stars
Much has been said of the Holocaust, but these stories usually end with the liberation of the Jews from the concentration camps. This remarkable documentary fills in the missing piece between this period and the creation of the state of Israel. It was an excruciatingly difficult transition. From the concentration camps, the Jews went to displaced persons camp because they could not return to their old ways of life. These camps were scarcely an improvement. As one survivor states, "The Nazis killed us, but the Allies do not let us live." Anti-Semitic feelings remained strong among the people of surrounding countries as well as the ranks of the Allies themselves. The Jews began to work toward a homeland and many survivors made the difficult journey to Palestine, only to be blocked by the British, who still administrated that land in these final years of their colonial empire, and sent to still other camps on the island of Cyprus. The film also covers the debate in the United Nations concerning Israel, the strong support from U.S. President Harry Truman despite ambivalence among his Cabinet, and the opposition of the Arabs.
Featuring incredible archival footage, fascinating interviews, and skilled actors performing the testimonies of eyewitnesses, this important film casts light on a period of world history that is often glossed over.
Summary of The Long Way Home
As Allied troops liberated Nazi concentration camps in the final weeks of World War?II, the trials of the Jews in Europe were hardly over. The end of the war brought extreme deprivation and even, in some places, further violence directed against survivors of the Holocaust. This documentary tells the story of the struggle European Jews faced in trying to reach Palestine, which they hoped would become the new Jewish homeland. Archival footage documents how Jews literally walked across snow-clogged mountain passes to reach the Mediterranean. In Italian ports they boarded overcrowded freighters and tried to slip past the blockage of Palestine, which was then controlled by Britain. The physical hardships were only part of the problem, and The Long Way Home does a fine job of describing the complicated political dealings that involved the United Nations, the U.S. administration of Harry Truman, and, of course, the Arab states that were hostile to the very idea of the country of Israel. Drawing on letters, diaries, and oral histories of participants, as well as interviews with Holocaust survivors and those who volunteered to help the fledgling Zionist state, an inspiring human story of courage and fortitude emerges in the course of this moving and fascinating film. --Robert?J. McNamaraEducational DVD Video
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