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With Alfred Drake, Muriel Smith, Gary Merrill, Saul Levitt. "Strange Victory" is about racial bias in post World War II America. Folowing "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.
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- Documentary
- Leo Hurwitz
- 1948-09-25
Strange Victory is the first significant anti-racist U.S. documentary film. With World War II over and Frontier Films dissolved, Leo Hurwitz and Barney Rosset (soon to form Grove Press) teamed up as Target Films to create this eloquent and powerful statement. It was to be their only collaboration.
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- Leo Hurwitz
- 1948
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Directed by Leo Hurwitz • 1948 • United States. Starring Alfred Drake, Muriel Smith, Gary Merrill. In 1945, the free world rejoiced over the defeat of fascism. But the sense of peace was short-lived, and as the Cold War began, the United States entered a period of national paranoia and political repression.
May 9, 2020 · One of the greatest of all documentaries, “ Strange Victory ,” directed by Leo Hurwitz, from 1948—in which he contrasts America’s involvement in the defeat of the Nazi regime with the...
Aug 23, 2018 · 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 business as usual in ...
Strange Victory is a compelling exploration of racial bias in post World War II America, offering a historical perspective that remains relevant today. The movie employs a unique blend of dramatized scenes, compilation news reel footage, and evocative imagery, showcasing Leo Hurwitz's distinctive filmmaking techniques.
