Title: Tango of slaves
Authors: Ziv, Ilan.; Larish, Naftali.; Dzieduszycki, Mateusz.; Sternberg, Claudia, 1942-; Grunwald, Wolfgang.; Teitelbaum, Iris.; Ingham, Kate.; Tamouz Media.; Israel.; Channel Four (Great Britain)
Publisher: Tamouz Media,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland Personal narratives; Documentary films.; Jews Poland.; Jews Persecutions Poland Personal narratives.; Jews Poland Personal narratives.; Holocaust survivors Poland; Warsaw (Poland) History; Warsaw (Poland) Description and travel.
Abstract: A poignant documentary by filmmaker Ilan Ziv on the persecution of Polish Jews before and during World War II. Inspired by a recently discovered old photograph of members of his father's family taken in Poland before the war, Ziv persuades his reluctant father, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, to make a trip to Warsaw to revisit and explore the actual scenes of his bitter experiences. The trip, at least as far as the father is concerned, is not an unqualified success. So much has changed, so much has been destroyed, that the father feels that his personal stories of the past are "just memories with no link to the present." His son's film, however, is a success, presenting a remarkable picture of pre-war Polish Jewish life and the subsequent dreadful realities of the Warsaw Ghetto. This is achieved by artfully combining his father's memories and the comments of Jewish historians and other survivors with rare footage from both Polish and German documentary films. The title of the film is derived from the title of a song written by a young Jewish girl who perished in a Nazi death camp.