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Strange Victory: Directed by Leo Hurwitz. With Alfred Drake, Muriel Smith, Gary Merrill, Saul Levitt. "Strange Victory" is about racial bias in post World War II America.
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- Documentary
- Leo Hurwitz
- 1948-09-25
Strange Victory is the first significant anti-racist U.S. documentary film. With World War II over and Frontier Films dissolved, Leo Hurwitz and Barney Rosset (soon to form Grove Press) teamed up as Target Films to create this eloquent and powerful statement.
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- Leo Hurwitz
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Leo Hurwitz’s extraordinary documentary “Strange Victory” (1948) was the first significant post-WWII anti-racist, anti-fascist non-fiction films. It is composed of archival scenes of WWII destruction juxtaposed against newly shot sequences that portray inequity and unbalance in American society.
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Directed by Leo Hurwitz • 1948 • United States. Starring Alfred Drake, Muriel Smith, Gary Merrill. In 1945, the free world rejoiced over the defeat of fascism. But the sense of peace was short-lived, and as the Cold War began, the United States entered a period of national paranoia and political repression.
Strange Victory" is about racial bias in post World War II America. Following "Native Land" in Leo Hurwitz' filmography, it uses some of the same techniques: dramatized scenes interspersed with scenes of compilation news reel footage, and scenes of evocative imagery.
