Product Details
- SKU: MILEBD00157
- Format: BLU-RAY DISC
- UPC: 784148015750
- Street Date: 08/14/18
- PreBook Date: 07/10/18
- Label: Milestone Films »
- Genre: Documentary
- Run Time: 71 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 1948
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: US
- Language: English
Cast & Crew
- Director: Leo Hurwitz
- Producer: Barney Rosset
- Producers: Barney Rosset
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Strange Victory
The ideas of the loser is still active in the land of the winner.
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2017. Charlottesville was just the beginning. Racist attacks against Hispanics, Muslims, Jews and African Americans have increased exponentially since the election of Donald Trump. Americans celebrate the idea of building walls while ICE tears families apart. 1945. The free world rejoices over the defeat of facism. But the peace soon chilled, and in the Cold War that followed the United States entered a period of national paranoia and political repression. In response, film producer Barney Rosset and director Leo Hurwitz joined forces to create Strange Victory. This rarely seen, stylistically bold documentary equals the visual, poetic brilliance of Battleship Potemkin and I am Cuba while delivering an extraordinary cry from the heart to make a better place for our children. Skillfully combining documentary footage of World War II battles, postwar refugees, and the Nuremberg trials with powerful dramatic re-enactments, Hurwitz wove an extraordinary cinematic portrait of postwar American Fascism. How could it be, the film asked, that servicemen returned home from defeating a racist and genocidal enemy found the United States plagued by racism, Jim Crow, anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, and xenophobia? Strange Victory - a cry for equality and justice - was promptly branded "procommunist" and a financial flop. Hurwitz was blacklisted from film and television for more than a decade and Virgil Richardson (a former Tuskegee Airman), who portrayed a black vet in the film, chose to emigrate to Mexico to escape to US racism.
