Long Is the Road

Long Is the Road

77 mins | Drama, History | Jan. 14, 1949

"Long is the Road" - The first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp in U.S.-occupied Germany, and mixing neorealist and expressionist styles, the film follows a Polish Jew and his family from pre-war Warsaw through Auschwitz and the DP camps.

Long Is the Road

77 mins | Drama, History | Jan. 14, 1949

Long Is the Road
"Long is the Road" - The first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp in U.S.-occupied Germany, and mixing neorealist and expressionist styles, the film follows a Polish Jew and his family from pre-war Warsaw through Auschwitz and the DP camps.
Producers I.F.O. (Internationale Filmorganization)
Original title Lang ist der Weg
Directors Marek Goldstein, Herbert B. Fredersdorf
Writers Israel Becker, Karl Georg Külb

Cast

Israel Beker

as David Jelin

Bettina Moissi

as Dora Berkowitz

Berta Litwina

as Hanna Jelin

Jakob Fischer

as Jakob Jelin

Otto Wernicke

as doctor

Paul Dahlke

as doctor

Misha Natan

as Partisan

David Hart

as Mr. Liebermann

Heinz-Leo Fischer

as Chodetzki

Aleksander Bardini

as Farmer