Long Is the Road (1948)

Original title

Lang ist der Weg

Directed by

Marek Goldstein, Herbert B. Fredersdorf

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 18m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young Polish Jewish man escapes during transport to a concentration camp. The film follows him and his family through the Holocaust.

somberharrowingrestrainedhistoricalreflectiveearnestslow-pacedmelancholic

What happens

Long Is the Road (German: Lang ist der Weg, Yiddish: Lang iz der Veg) is a 1948 German drama film directed by Herbert B. Fredersdorf and Marek Goldstein and starring Israel Becker, Bettina Moissi and Berta Litwina. The story examines the Holocaust from the perspective of a Polish Jewish family and a young man who is able to escape while he is transported to a concentration camp. The film was made during the summer of 1947. It was the first German-made film to directly portray the Holocaust (Morituri was released earlier but made later). It was made with the support of the US Army Information Control Division. It was partly shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich with sets designed by the art director Carl Ludwig Kirmse. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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