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1974 film
The 81st Blow
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Directed by
| David Bergman
Jacques "Jacquo" Ehrlich
Haim Gouri
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Written by
| Haim Gouri
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Produced by
| David Bergman
Jacques Ehrlich
Haim Gouri
Beit Lohamei HaGhettaot
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Edited by
| Jacques Ehrlich
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Release date
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Running time
| 115 minutes
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Country
| Israel
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Languages
| Yiddish
Hebrew
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The 81st Blow
(
Hebrew
:
???? ?-81
and also known as
The Eighty-First Blow
) is a 1974 Israeli
documentary film
directed by
Haim Gouri
. The film covers the oppression of Jews under the Nazis and features rare historical footage of concentration camps. It was nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
.
[1]
[2]
The title is derived from a comment by a witness at
Adolf Eichmann
's trial. According to his testimony, he was whipped 80 times by the Nazis, but was not believed by Israelis after the war; this final doubt of his own people was the "81st blow".
The 81st Blow
is the first film in the Israeli Holocaust Trilogy by Bergman, Ehrlich and Gouri.
[3]
It was followed by
The Last Sea
(1984) and
Flames in the Ashes
(1985).
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