Long Is the Road

Lang ist der Weg

“First Post-War Jewish Film From Europe! Dialogue in English, German, Yiddish and Polish”

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.

Director

Herbert B. Fredersdorf

Director

Marek Goldstein

Screenplay

Israel Becker

Screenplay

Karl Georg Külb

Status

Released

Release date

11/11/1948

Original language

German