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The Red Orchestra producers, Joachim Ortmanns, Isabelle Truc, Gidi Avivi ; a film by Carl-Ludwig Rettinger ; co-director, Lorenz Findeisen ; a Lichtblick Film production
- Format:
- Video
- Standardized Title:
- Red Orchestra (Motion picture : 2020)
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Rote Kapelle (Resistance group).
- Anti-Nazi movement.
- Espionage.
- War--Underground movements.
- France--Paris.
- Belgium--Brussels.
- Genre:
- History
- Documentary films
- Nonfiction films
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 59 min., 59 sec.)) sound, color with black & white sequences
- color
- black and white
- Other Title:
- Also known as Rote Kapelle
- Place of Publication:
- [Köln, Germany] [Lichtblick Film] [2020]
- Language Note:
- English and some German and French with English subtitles
- System Details:
- digital
- video file
- Summary:
- "'The Red Orchestra' was the most important resistance group inside the Third Reich, a vast spy network mainly located in Brussels and Paris during the Second World War. Those activists help the Jews persecuted by the regime, hide deserters and gather military information that will be decisive for the victory of the allies. By comparing the images and the narrative of a film made in the German Federal Republic (GFR) and a series made in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the early 1970s, each of the two films only telling half the truth, but also by meeting the descendants of these courageous men, shootings on the important places of this history and by inviting some specialists of that time, the director Carl-Ludwig Rettinger proposes to shed light on this network of mythical spy"-- IMDb
- Participant:
- Narrator: Brendan Coyle
- Credits:
- Music, Eloi Ragot ; photography, Lutz Reitemeier, Olivier Verdon ; editor, Martin Kayser-Landwehr
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 2020
- Online resource; title from title frame (viewed August 13, 2026)
- OCLC:
- 1611171127
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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