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Stanley Kubrick’s Unrealized Vision

When Stanley Kubrick died in March 1999 during the post-production of his final film, \”Eyes Wide Shut,\” he left behind several pet projects he had been working on for decades. These included a science-fiction riff on \”Pinocchio\” (later finished by Steven Spielberg as \”A.I.\”), a historical biopic of the life of Napoleon and a Holocaust project with the working title \”Aryan Papers.\”

Priest Makes Deal With Devil in ‘Day’

Volker Schlaandorff, born in Germany in the fateful year 1939, has explored his country\’s dark history in such films as \”The Tin Drum,\” \”The Ogre\” and \”The Legend of Rita.\”\n\nNow he returns to the Nazi era in the intense \”The Ninth Day,\” a film mature enough to view the Shoah from a different perspective and to confront the viewer with complex questions of morality, religion and character.\n\nBased broadly on the wartime diary of a Luxembourg priest, the Rev. Jean Bernard, the films opens in a wintry Dachau, where three special barracks have been set aside for clergymen. The vast majority of the occupants are Catholic, but there also are some Protestant and Greek Orthodox ministers who have refused to toe the Nazi line.

Survivors Sue Claims Commission

Survivors are suing the commission on Nazi-era insurance claims, a commissioner has called for the resignation of its chief and Jewish officials handling the claims acknowledge serious problems.

But they also say there probably isn\’t a better way to dole out the claims.

The anger and frustration some lawmakers and survivors feel toward the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims peaked last week when several survivors filed suit, claiming the organization was delaying payments.

California\’s insurance commissioner, John Garamendi, a member of the commission, later joined the suit and called for the resignation of the commission\’s chairman, former U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger.

Renegade Robbins

Tim Robbins spied \”Mephisto,\” the Nazi-era play based on Klaus Mann\’s 1936 novel about an actor who pandered to the Nazis to advance his career, while rifling through a box of books on his way out of an English-language bookstore in Paris last March. The actor-writer-activist, then on location with Jonathan Demme\’s film, \”The Truth About Charlie,\” was searching for plays to direct at the Actors\’ Gang, the boldly original Los Angeles troupe he\’d co-founded with UCLA peers in 1981.

Austria Will Pay

When U.S. District Judge Shirley Wohl Kram gave the green light on Wednesday, July 25 for Austria to start paying out $450 million to World War II forced and slave laborers, she had special words of praise for Walter Zifkin.

Agreement Reached for Slave Laborers

Jews who worked as slave laborers during the Nazi era are one step closer to receiving some measure of compensation for their ordeal.
After months of torturous negotiations, an agreement has been reached to establish a $5.2 billion fund for these victims of the Holocaust, according to several lawyers and Jewish officials involved in the talks.

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