2007 | Israel | 62 min.
Language: Hebrew (English subtitles)

Credits

• Director: Ari Libsker
• Producer: Barak Heymann
• Screenwriter: Ari Libsker
• Co-producer: Ari Libsker
• Editor: Morris Ben-Mayor
• Cinematographer: Uri Levi, Dror Lebendiger

Synopsis

Stalags were pocket books whose plots revealed lusty female SS officers sexually abusing camp prisoners. During the 1960s, parallel to the trial held against Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmannl, sales of this pornographic literature broke all records in Israel and hundreds of thousands of copies were sold at kiosks. The popularity of the Stalags only declined after a much-reported trial, in which their authors were accused of distributing anti-Semitic pornography.

This film examines the notorious phenomenon, exposing the creators of this genre for the first time. It posits that the combination of pornography and the Holocaust also appears in canonic Holocaust litrature and continues to be a widespread part of the representation of the Holocaust in Israel today.
 

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Videos/Trailers

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Film Festivals & Awards

• Hot Docs, Int’l Documentary Film Festival, Canada, 2008
• VIENNALE – Vienna International Film Festival, Austria, 2008
• Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia, 2008
• It’s All True Documentary Film Festival, Brazil, 2008
• Jerusalem Film Festival, Israel, 2007
• Bergen International Film Festival, Norway, 2008
• Film Forum, New York, USA, 2008
• Miami International Film Festival, USA, 2008
• San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2008
• Seattle International Film Festival, USA, 2008
• Toronto Jewish Film Festival, Canada 2008
• Cork Internatioanl Film Festival, Ireland, 2008

Snapshots

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Publications, Reviews, Press releases

• "Stalags" - Reviews (Metacritic)
• "Stalags" - Movie Reviews, Pictures (Rotten Tomatoes)
• Israel’s Unexpected Spinoff From a Holocaust Trial (New York Times)
• "Stalags" (official Website)

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