Query: Historical films from the 1980s about race and ethnicity
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
Esther (1986 film)
The Bounty (1984 film)
The Scarlet and the Black
Berlin-Jerusalem
The Bunker (1981 film)
Utu (film)
Evidence from documents: Esther (1986 film): '''''Esther''''' (Hebrew: '''אסתר''') is a 97-minute 1986 Austrian-British-Dutch-Israeli Hebrew-language independent underground dramatic historical experimental art film
The Bounty (1984 film): '''''The Bounty''''' is a 1984 British historical drama film directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins, and produced by Bernard Williams with Dino De Laurentiis as executive producer. It is the fifth film version of the story of the mutiny on the ''Bounty''. The supporting cast features Laurence Olivier, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson and Edward Fox.
The Scarlet and the Black: Based on J. P. Gallagher's book ''The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican'' (published in 1967), the film tells the story of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, a real-life Irish Catholic priest who saved thousands of Jews and escaped Allied POWs in Rome.
Berlin-Jerusalem: '''''Berlin-Jerusalem''''' (Hebrew: '''ברלין ירושלים''', tr. ''Berlin Yerushalayim'') is an 89-minute 1989 British-Dutch-French-Israeli-Italian English-, French-, German-, and Hebrew-language independent underground dramatic historical experimental art film directed by Amos Gitai.
The film tells the story of two women in the 1930s. The first, Else Lasker-Schüler (Lisa Kreuzer), a German expressionist poet, observes the rise of Nazism in Berlin before leaving for Jerusalem. The second, the Russian Manya Shochat (Rivka Neumann), called Tania in the film, settles in a community in Israel.
The Bunker (1981 film): Historical films from the 1980s: '''''The Bunker''''' is a 1981 American made-for-television historical war film
about race and ethnicity: The film, directed by George Schaefer and adapted for the screen by John Gay, is a dramatisation depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the Battle of Berlin.
Utu (film): '''''Utu''''' is a 1983 New Zealand film directed and co-written by Geoff Murphy; starring Anzac Wallace as Te Wheke, a warrior who sets out to get vengeance after British forces kill his people, Bruno Lawrence and Kelly Johnson. Sometimes described as "a Maori Western", ''Utu'' was reputed to have one of the largest budgets for a New Zealand film up until that time.