Leo Haas: Artist and Witness of His Times

Name: Leo Haas: Artist and Witness of His Times
Rating: 10.0

Not Rated Documentary

Starring: Leo Haas, Thomas Kästner

Writer: Jörg d'Bomba

Release Date:
June 25, 1971

Ratings:
10.0 / 10

Director:
Jörg d'Bomba

Companies:
DEFA-Studio für Trickfilme

Overview

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.

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