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Directed by | James Moll |
Produced by | June Beallor Kenneth Lipper |
Music by | Hans Zimmer |
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87 min. |
Language | English, German and Hungarian |
The Last Days is a documentary, directed by James Moll and produced by June Beallor and Kenneth Lipper in 1998. Steven Spielberg was one of the executive producers, in his role as founder of the Shoah Foundation. The film tells the stories of five Hungarian Jews during the Shoah. It focuses on the horrors of life in the Nazi concentration camps, but also stresses the optimism and desire to survive of the survivors.
The film won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Shoah survivors Bill Basch, Irene Zisblatt, Renee Firestone, Alice Lok Cahana, Tom Lantos, Dario Gabbai who was a Greek Jew from Salonica, and Randolph Braham are featured in the film.