Strange Victory
By: Target Films presents ; scenario by Leo Hurwitz ; narration written by Saul Levitt ; produced by Barnet L. Rosset, Jr. ; directed by Leo Hurwitz
Contributors: Target Films; Milestone Film & Video
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781933920955
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Race discrimination; History
Description: "'Strange Victory' was the first solo film by Leo Hurwitz, a central character in the radical Frontier Film movement. It is both an exposé and inside view of the facts of the Cold War as experienced at the very moment of its birth. The director's vision amounts to an almost surrealist network of images and sounds about the perverse consequences of the "strange victory"--How high hopes are destroyed, and the flowers of evil grow instead, with aggressive Capitalism and anti-Semitism taking over, vampire-like, all aspects of everyday life, probably including personalities who had natural goodness in them. It's not just a Cold War, it is also a civil war. The chilling existence of American fascism is revealed through a puzzle of collage materials."--Container.
Notes: Photography, Peter Glushanok, George Jacobson; music, David Diamond; editor, Leo Hurwitz.

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DVD.