Echoes of Nazi terror in Amsterdam reverberate through Steve McQueen’s documentary Occupied City, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Today, Regency Enterprises, A24 and Film4 dropp…
‘The 1619 Project,’ ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ Lead Charge As Cinema Eye Honors Announces First Round Of Documentary Nominations , which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Today, Regency Enterprises, A24 and Film4 dropped a trailer for the film ahead of its Christmas Day release in U.S. theaters.
“Soon, the Nazis started to ban Jews from parks, pools, shops, cafes and schools – from all public life,” notes the narration voiced by actress Melanie Hyams and written by Dutch historian and filmmaker Bianca Stigter, McQueen’s wife. “In 1941 they started rounding people up. In 1942 the deportations began.”
The film is likely to take on even greater resonance this year coming after the Hamas attack in Israel, the worst terror attack on Jews since the Second World War.written by Bianca Stigter,” a release about the film observes. “McQueen creates two interlocking portraits: a door-to-door excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts his adopted city, and a vivid journey through the last years of pandemic and protest.