The Willy Lindwer Film & Video Collection

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Emmy Award Winning Director Willy Lindwer has earned world-wide recognition as a documentary filmmaker.

During a period of over three decades Willy Lindwer has produced numerous documentary films and series on a wide range of topics, including: Art, Social issues, History, The Holocaust, Israel and the Middle East and Africa.

The Willy Lindwer Film & Video Collection currently consists of 43 documentary films and series. The Willy Lindwer Collection is available for world-wide distribution: television and broadcast, DVD home video, educational and non-theatrical and theatrical. Contact us for more information.

Willy Lindwer is also a widely published author of books and articles.
He is a popular lecturer on filmmaking and the Holocaust and is invited to speak in conjunction with the screening of his films.

Latest productions:

Anne's Silent Struggle

"Anna’s Silent Struggle" tells the moving story of Anna, today an 82 year old woman and how she managed to survive this death camp despite her handicap. For the hearing, Auschwitz is characterized as a place of horrible sounds; shouted commands, screaming, shooting and cries of torture. For the deaf, the terror was silent.

"Anna’s Silent Struggle" is the first film documenting the dramatic story of a forgotten group that was able to survive, despite their tremendous handicap. The film was shot on locations in Holland, Belgium and Poland.

Willy Lindwer's major breakthrough came in 1988 in the US, when he was awarded with the International Emmy Award for his documentary 'The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank'.

In 1993 he won 'the Grand Prix of the Dutch Film Industry' in the category 'best documentary' for another major Holocaust documentary: 'Child in Two Worlds' the story of Jewish War Orphans.

For his film 'Simon Wiesenthal, Freedom is Not a Gift from Heaven' he was the Dutch nominee for the International Emmy Award for Best Documentary in the year 1994.

He is an Israel Academy Award candidate for 'Goodbye Holland' in 2005.

Willy Lindwer has also received many other awards for his films.