Long Is the Road

First Post-War Jewish Film From Europe! Dialogue in English, German, Yiddish and Polish

Long Is the Road — Plot

The first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp in U.S.-occupied Germany, and mixing neorealist and expressionist styles, the film follows a Polish Jew and his family from pre-war Warsaw through Auschwitz and the DP camps.

• Release date
• November 11, 1948
• Runtime
• 77 min
• Genres
• History, Drama
• Director
• Marek Goldstein

Long Is the Road — Cast

I

Israel Beker David Jelin Bettina Moissi Dora Berkowitz

B

Berta Litwina Hanna Jelin Otto Wernicke doctor Paul Dahlke doctor

M

Misha Natan Partisan

D

David Hart Mr. Liebermann

H

Heinz-Leo Fischer Chodetzki