Film
Leo Haas: Artist and Witness of His Times
1971Directed by Jörg d'Bomba
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- Released
- Runtime
- 13m
About Leo Haas: Artist and Witness of His Times
- Documentary
Synopsis
When the Nazis took power, the Jewish artist Leo Haas (1901-1983) was arrested in his Czechoslovakian hometown. He spent the next six years in different concentration camps and became known for the paintings he did in the Theresienstadt camp. This film presents Haas as a political artist and resistance fighter and celebrates him as a socialist caricaturist dedicated to the GDR.
- Director
- Jörg d'Bomba
- Writer
- Jörg d'Bomba
- Original title
- Leo Haas: Zeichner - Zeuge - Zeitgenosse