I thought I would add a quick post to help you out if you are new to the World of Weblogs.
Its easiest to think of a weblog as a responsive Internet page - rather than logging onto the Internet and finding a static page of information a weblog is a living, breathing thing. Weblogs are written by real people who are interested and passionate about the subjects they write about, and weblogs are responsive - if you click on the Comments field under any of the posts you see on this page you can tell us what you think about the subjects we are discussing and share your views with other readers.
As well as the posts (written articles) you will find lists of useful information running down the side of the weblogs - these can include anything and everything and will be dependent upon the subject of the weblog you are viewing. You may find links to book, films, websites and even other weblogs - and if you click on one of the lists you will (nearly always!) be taken to a site that can tell you even more about the subject that you are interested in.
Feel free to read the posts on this site and, if you have the time, please talk to us! Let us know your thoughts and views and we will do our best to respond to you... keep coming back and you will see the weblog evolve to include your ideas.
Thanks for taking the time to read this post.
Ben
Tuesday, 22 August 2006
Register With Our Site
If you would like further information on the upcoming documentary Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead, please feel free to register with us by sending your email address to info@cyclopsvision.co.uk.
Once we have your contact details we will be able to keep you informed with news from Cyclops Vision (the films production company), updates about the film and information on available screenings etc.
You will also become eligible to win one of the prizes mentioned on the site - from signed books to memorabilia from the set of the film itself!
Once we have your contact details we will be able to keep you informed with news from Cyclops Vision (the films production company), updates about the film and information on available screenings etc.
You will also become eligible to win one of the prizes mentioned on the site - from signed books to memorabilia from the set of the film itself!
Update On Publishing Date For Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead
The new edition of the book Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead is now on sale and can be purchased from Lulu.com and Amazon.
A DVD of the documentary film will also be made available through the Cyclops Vision website in due course when it is complete and ready for distribution.
If you would like to receive information on either product please send your email address to info@cyclopsvision.co.uk. One of the registered members of this site will receive a free copy of the book which will be signed and dedicated by Garri Urban's son Stuart, the Bafta-winning film-maker who is directing the story of Garri's life.
A DVD of the documentary film will also be made available through the Cyclops Vision website in due course when it is complete and ready for distribution.
If you would like to receive information on either product please send your email address to info@cyclopsvision.co.uk. One of the registered members of this site will receive a free copy of the book which will be signed and dedicated by Garri Urban's son Stuart, the Bafta-winning film-maker who is directing the story of Garri's life.
Thanks from The Film-Makers
While talking to Cyclops Vision, the guys behind the documentary Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead, it became clear that they have carried out an incredible amount of research on the conditions that Garri Urban and so many others suffered in Stalin's Gulags.As well as drawing on Garri Urban's memoirs and the recordings made by his son Stuart during their exploration of Garri's past life, the documentary-makers consulted many specialists in the field of the Russian Gulags and the conditions suffered by so many in the Nazi concentration camps.
Principal among those that were consulted were Anne Applebaum and Sir Martin Gilbert.
Stuart Urban and Cyclops Vision were keen to pass on their thanks to Anne who is described as "a key participant in this documentary". Anne is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gulag: A History, which was published in April 2003.The production team also wanted to pass on their thanks to Sir Martin Gilbert for his assistance with the documentary. Sir Martin is the author of The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy , which is considered to be a classic work on the subject from one of the leading historians of the modern world.
Monday, 21 August 2006
The World of Documentaries
Okay folks, you get to vote: I'm putting some links here to sources of information about documentary films. If you think they're useful, I'll put them on a Typelist and run them down the side of the page. If they're too vanilla, or you know them all already, they'll just sit here unwanted, unnoticed and unloved... waiting for someone to click on them.
The first lot come from Wikipedia's article on documentary films. It includes links to:
The Documentary Filmmakers Group
Documentary Educational Resources
Documentary Films.Net
International Documentary Association
Docuseek (with zero matches for the Gulag and 71 titles regarding the Holocaust)
The first lot come from Wikipedia's article on documentary films. It includes links to:
The Documentary Filmmakers Group
Documentary Educational Resources
Documentary Films.Net
International Documentary Association
Docuseek (with zero matches for the Gulag and 71 titles regarding the Holocaust)
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Suggested Reading
Garri S. Urban: Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead This is the true and striking story by a Jewish doctor of his struggle for survival when caught in 1939 between the evils of Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia. After facing death from frontier patrols, a firing squad and torture, Urban arrives at a position of considerable power in Soviet society in a medical post. He risks his life again, fighting epidemics. These fascinating memoirs give a very rare glimpse of the Soviet Union in wartime, particularly into the exotic life of the Moiscow elite, where beautiful women, diplomats and spies mingled at parties and sex was used as a method of recruiting agents. Compassionate to the sick, defiant to authority, Garri S Urban courage
Ruth Kluger: Landscape of Memory - a Holocaust Girlhood Remembered Ruth Kluger is one of the child-survivors of the Holocaust. In 1942 at the age of 11, she was deported to the Nazi "family camp" Theresienstadt with her mother. They would move to two other camps before the war ended. This book is the story of Ruth's life. Of a childhood spent in the nazi camps and her refusal to forget the past as an adult in America. Not erasing a single detail, not even the inconvienient ones, she writes frankly about the troubled relationship with her mother even through their years of internment and her determination not to forgive and absolve the past.
Sir Martin Gilbert: The Holocaust A very thorough account of the experience of the Jews of Europe during World War II. This title gives a virtual day-by-day account, in men and women's own words, of the horrifying events of the Holocaust - the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jewish race.
Anne Applebaum: Gulag The Pulitzer Prize winning narrative of the origins and development of the Soviet concentration camps. Based on archives, interviews and new research the book explains the role that the camps played in the Soviet political and economic system.
Richard Overy: Russia's War The astounding events of 1941-45 in which the Soviet Union, after initial catastrophes, destroyed Hitler's Third Reich and shaped European history for the next fifty years.
Willy Peter Reese: A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-1944 The haunting memoir of a young German soldier on the Russian front during World War II. Willy Peter Reese was only twenty years old when he found himself marching through Russia with orders to take no prisoners. Three years later he was dead.
Slavomir Rawicz: The Long Walk The story of a young Polish cavalry officer who was arrested by the Russians, tortured and sentenced to 25 years forced labour. His escape and journey across the Gobi desert to Tibet and freedom.
Jean-Francois Steiner: Treblinka This is without a doubt one of the better books about the death camps. You will become intimately acquainted with Treblinka and the Nazis who ran it. Steiner's book is well-written and does justice to the horror.- Rodric Braithwaite: Moscow 1941Sunday Times review - ‘a wide-ranging and excellent account...Braithwaite never shirks the terrible truths
Suggested Films
Schindlers List
The 2004 release telling the true stroy of Schindlers attempts to save Jewish workers from the horrors of the German camps....
The Story Of The Gulag Runaway
In Stalinist Russia, Chabua Amiredjibi endured years of imprisonment, backbreaking punishment, horrific torture, and two death sentences. But his broken life and ill health did not kill his hope of gaining freedom. In all, he managed six escapes from Stalin's Gulag Camps. He stood up, fought and survived.
The 2004 release telling the true stroy of Schindlers attempts to save Jewish workers from the horrors of the German camps....
The Story Of The Gulag Runaway
In Stalinist Russia, Chabua Amiredjibi endured years of imprisonment, backbreaking punishment, horrific torture, and two death sentences. But his broken life and ill health did not kill his hope of gaining freedom. In all, he managed six escapes from Stalin's Gulag Camps. He stood up, fought and survived.