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Title Reckonings / Go 2 Films ; Katahdin Productions presents ; written, directed and produced by Roberta Grossman ; produced by Karen Heilig ; co-producer, July Hodara.

Publication Info. [New York, New York] : Claims Conference, [2022]
[Los Angeles, California] : Good Docs , [2022]
©2022

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Description 1 online resourece (1 video file (76 min.)) : sound, color, with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium polychrome monochrome
color black and white
Description digital
optical
sound
stereo
5.1 Dolby Digital
wide screen
video file
Motion pictures
Documentary films.
Note Originally released as documentary in 2022.
"The only way forward was confronting the past."--front cover.
Summary Reckonings explores this fascinating true story set in the aftermath of the Holocaust and leading to the groundbreaking Luxembourg Agreements of 1952. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Roberta Grossman (Who Will Write Our History) and commissioned by the German Ministry of Finance and the Claims Conference, the film is the first documentary feature to chronicle the harrowing process of negotiating German reparations for the Jewish people. It takes viewers from the halls of power in Bonn, West Germany, where fierce debate raged over how to pay wartime debts, to the streets of Jerusalem, where horror about any talks with Germany led to violent protests and a mob storming the Knesset. It profiles Jewish and German leaders who risked their lives to meet in a hidden castle near the Hague to negotiate the impossible. It captures the anger on one side, the shame on the other, and the anguish for all as talks broke down and failure seemed imminent. And it honors the behind-the-scenes figures who forged ahead to continue negotiations, knowing the compensation would never be enough but hoping it could at least be an acknowledgement, a recognition and a step toward healing. Filmed in six countries and featuring new interviews with Holocaust survivors, world-renowned scholars and dignitaries, and the last surviving member of the negotiating delegations, Reckonings powerfully illustrates how political will and a moral imperative can join forces to bridge an impossible divide. By confronting the past, the German and Jewish leaders charted a better future for a desperate and traumatized people. Their actions led to the first time in history that individual victims of persecution received material compensation from the perpetrators.
Credits Editor, Chris Callister ; director of photography, Alex Pollini ; music by Todd Boekelheide.
Language In English, German, and Hebrew with English subtitles.
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)
War reparations -- Jews.
War reparations.
Jews.
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Added Author Grossman, Roberta, film producer, film director, screenwriter.
Hodara, July, film producer.
Callister, Chris, 1980- film editor.
Pollini, Alex, cinematographer.
Boekelheide, Todd, composer (expression)
Heilig, Karen, 1965- film producer.
Katahdin Productions (Firm), film production company.
Go2Films (Firm), film production company.
Germany. Bundesministerium der Finanzen, issuing body.
Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, issuing body, publisher.
Good Docs (Firm), publisher, film distributor.
Added Title Reckonings (Motion picture : 2022)