LAJFF- None Shall Escape
LAJFF- None Shall Escape
CLOSING NIGHT
Alfred Neumann and Joseph Than were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story
Shall Escape is a 1944 war film. Even though it was made during World War II, the setting is a post-war Nuremberg-style war crimes trial. Production spanned from August - October 1943, more than eighteen months before the war in Europe ended. Wilhelm Grimm (Alexander Knox,) is a Nazi officer who is on trial for crimes against humanity. The story unfolds through the eyes of several witnesses, including a Catholic priest, Father Warecki (Henry Travers - Its a Wonderful Life,) and Marja (Marsha Hunt,) a woman whom he was once engaged to. Writers Neumann and Than were European émigrés, as was Hungarian-born director, Andre de Toth. This 72 year-old film was the only American anti-Nazi picture made during the war years to address the issue of war crimes and the atrocities against the the Jews and the Holocaust.
Marsha Hunt, 98 year-old actress/activist will receive the Marvin Paige Hollywood Legacy Award!
Q&A with Marsha Hunt moderated by Dr. Jan-Christopher Horak, Director of UCLA Film & Television Archive
Sponsored by Linda D. Levitz and Leon J. Levitz
Courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainment
Alfred Neumann and Joseph Than were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story
Shall Escape is a 1944 war film. Even though it was made during World War II, the setting is a post-war Nuremberg-style war crimes trial. Production spanned from August - October 1943, more than eighteen months before the war in Europe ended. Wilhelm Grimm (Alexander Knox,) is a Nazi officer who is on trial for crimes against humanity. The story unfolds through the eyes of several witnesses, including a Catholic priest, Father Warecki (Henry Travers - Its a Wonderful Life,) and Marja (Marsha Hunt,) a woman whom he was once engaged to. Writers Neumann and Than were European émigrés, as was Hungarian-born director, Andre de Toth. This 72 year-old film was the only American anti-Nazi picture made during the war years to address the issue of war crimes and the atrocities against the the Jews and the Holocaust.
Marsha Hunt, 98 year-old actress/activist will receive the Marvin Paige Hollywood Legacy Award!
Q&A with Marsha Hunt moderated by Dr. Jan-Christopher Horak, Director of UCLA Film & Television Archive
Sponsored by Linda D. Levitz and Leon J. Levitz
Courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainment
Runtime
85
Language
English
Played at
Fine Arts Theatre 5.25.16 - 5.25.16
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