Restitution: Art and Memory
IN PRODUCTION
The restoration of the arts in Germany and Europe from the 1940s to the present, a relatively ignored chapter in post-Holocaust history, will be explored in Restitution: Art and Memory.
One strand will focus on a Jewish family, following their lives and attempts to reclaim art stolen by the Nazis in an effort to reconnect with their culture and identity. A second strand will focus on ex-Nazis who formed a clandestine art-network in the 1940s.
Photo: Hulya Kolabas (Used with permission)
About the Filmmakers
JOHN S. FRIEDMAN, PRODUCER
Producer John S. Friedman was the lead producer on Marcel Ophuls’s Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, which received the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary in 1989 and the 1988 International Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. It has been shown in theaters in the United States, exhibited in numerous festivals, and shown theatrically or broadcast on TV in over fifty countries.
Friedman has long been a student of the Holocaust, interviewing Elie Wiesel for the Paris Review, writing numerous investigative articles about the wartime role of corporations, and returning to the subject in another documentary, Stealing the Fire, which he co-directed and co-produced. It was selected by the International Documentary Association (IDA) as a finalist for the best documentary of 2002. He is also an executive producer of Radical Evil directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, who won an Academy Award in 2008 for best foreign language film, The Counterfeiters.
Every film Friedman has produced has been completed, shown in theaters and on TV, and received awards.
Hugo Macgregor directed the last segment of Simon Schama’s The Story of the Jews (“Over the Rainbow”); the documentary What Makes a Masterpiece?; and The World Women Made, a four-part documentary series commission by the BBC.
He recently completed a feature-length film on Confucianism for Chinese television.
Director of Photography Slawomir Grunberg is an Emmy-award winning filmmaker who has directed and produced documentaries for NOVA, Frontline, The Discovery Channel, and other TV outlets around the world, including The Legacy of Jedwabne, about a pogrom in Poland in 1941. He studied photography at the Polish Film School in Lodz and was the director of photography on Stealing the Fire.
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