AWARDS

GOLDEN EAGLE AWARD CINE
FIRST PRIZE Anthropos

SCREENINGS

Karakare Film Days, Istanbul, Turkey (2007)

Patrisans of Vilna tells the extraordinary story of the men and women who formed the Jewish partisan movement in Vilna, Lithuania during World War II. Using rare archival footage dating from 1939-44 and contemporary interviews with forty partisan survivors (including Abba Kovner, a founder of the partisan movement and one of Israel's leading poets) the film explores the difficulties of organizing under the anarchic conditions of the ghetto.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"You'll know you are watching heroes. Their courage is visible and unmistakable"
- Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"A movie that must be seen: Stirring, absorbing, incredible."
­ Jeffery Lyons, Sneak Previews

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The National Center For Jewish Film Brandeis University, Lown 102, MS053, Waltham MA 02454 P: (781) 899 7044, F: (781) 736 2070

Partisans of Vilna

USA, 1985, 130 minutes
Color/B&W
Directed by Josh Waletzky

$90 Institutional Use DVD

Public Exhibition 35mm, 16mm, Beta Rental also available