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Strange Victory. Filming in 1947 and 1948, Leo Hurwitz uses newsreel images of the Second World War in his quest to uncover the source of the fear seen in the faces of urban passersby, who, he ...
“A strange victory, where the ideas of the loser are still active in the land of the winner.” A landmark anti-racist film, presaging the civil rights movement, acclaimed as one of the greatest documentaries of all time. Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Introduction by Tanya Goldman and Tom Hurwitz on October 27th
Strange Victory" is about racial bias in post World War II America. Following "Native Land" in Leo Hurwitz' filmography, it uses some of the same techniques: dramatized scenes interspersed with scenes of compilation news reel footage, and scenes of evocative imagery.
Strange Victory — a cry for equality and justice — was promptly branded “procommunist” and a financial flop. Hurwitz was blacklisted from film and television for more than a decade and Virgil Richardson (a former Tuskegee Airman), who portrayed a black vet in the film, chose to emigrate to Mexico to escape to US racism.
23 ago 2018 · Rating: 3.5 of 5. An American self-critique presented in a compelling documentary style similar to the Russian school of colliding images, Leo Hurwitz’s 1948 Strange Victory serves up a lightning-paced argument that Americans shed their own blood to defeat a genocidal strongman in World War II only to come back to anti-Semitic and anti-black ...
5 ott 2020 · It’s heartbreaking to compare Nazi Germany to a democratic America, but there it is and it’s hard to deny. Producer Barney Rosset was founder after this film of the freedom-loving Grove press. He said the film showed “It was about how we won the war, and crushed Hitler, but he escaped. Escaped and came here.”.
Ratings. Strange Victory" is about racial bias in post World War II America. Following "Native Land" in Leo Hurwitz' filmography, it uses some of the same techniques: dramatized scenes interspersed with scenes of compilation news reel footage, and scenes of evocative imagery.
