Klassisk musikal av Norman Jewison efter Joseph Steins pjäs som i sin tur bygger på Sholem Aleichems berättelser om en liten judisk by i Ryssland vid förra sekelskiftet. De ryska judarna förföljdes svårt men vägrade trots det att överge sitt judiska arv.

Musfamiljen Muskewitz bor i källaren hos den ryska familjan Moskewitz. Mössen terroriseras av kosacker, eller rättare sagt, katter i kosackkläder. Till slut får pappa Muskewitz nog och beslutar sig för att emigrera med familjen till Amerika.

Raj Kakra’s debut Punjabi movie “Kaum De Heere” is based on life of Bhai Beant Singh and Satwant Singh, who had assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Raj Kakra has sought support of the Sikh nation for this movie.

Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light of day, seen from the inside of a car, while the director reads out documents in voiceover that reveals the collusion of the same concerns in the military dictatorship’s terror.

In Iasi, Romania, from June 28 to July 6, 1941, nearly 15 000 Jews were murdered in the course of a horrifying pogrom. At the time, the programmed extermination of European Jews had not yet began. After the war, the successive communist governments did all they could to ensure the Iasi pogrom would be forgotten. It was not until November of 2004 that Romania recognized for the first time its direct responsibility in the pogrom. All that remains of this massacre are about a hundred photographs taken as souvenirs by german and romanian soldiers, and a few remaining survivors.

"Opfer Des Hasses" depicts how the family of Herr Goldschmidt, a Jewish Russian manufacturer, suffered ruin and murder as victims of a pogrom during the Russian Revolution. Herr Goldschmidt manages to save two of his grandchildren and they flee to Vienna where the Jewish welfare organization helps immigrants in an orphanage in Baden. Years later Herr Goldschmidt tells the whole sad story to a visitor.