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Emigration N.Y.

Original title: Die Geschichte einer Vertreibung

IMDb8.40
19953h 0m

Overview

When Hitler's infamous "Anschluss" annexed Austria to Germany in 1938, the lives of 130,000 Jewish Austrians were placed at risk. Over the next three years, some 30,000 managed to emigrate to the United States, settling mainly in New York City. In Austrian filmmaker Egon Humer's brilliant and moving documentary EMIGRATION N.Y., twelve Viennese Jews -- seven women, five men -- recount their lives as children in Austria, as emigrants, as New Yorkers. Deceptively simple in style, the film gathers striking emotional power as its subjects (who include Amos Vogel, co-founder of the New York Film Festival) offer fresh and often surprising views on their experience of exile and assimilation.

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Crew

Director
Egon Humer
Writer
Egon Humer
Producers
Heinz Stussak, Michael Seeber
Production
Prisma Film

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Emigration N.Y. was directed by Egon Humer.

When was Emigration N.Y. released?

Emigration N.Y. was released in 1995.