Emigration N.Y.

Synopsis

When Hitler's infamous "Anschluss" annexed Austria to Germany in 1938, the lives of 130,000 Jewish Austrians were placed at risk. Over the next three years, some 30,000 managed to emigrate to the United States, settling mainly in New York City. In Austrian filmmaker Egon Humer's brilliant and moving documentary EMIGRATION N.Y., twelve Viennese Jews -- seven women, five men -- recount their lives as children in Austria, as emigrants, as New Yorkers. Deceptively simple in style, the film gathers striking emotional power as its subjects (who include Amos Vogel, co-founder of the New York Film Festival) offer fresh and often surprising views on their experience of exile and assimilation.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Egon Humer
Writing	Writer	Egon Humer
Production	Researcher	Amos Vogel
	Producer	Michael Seeber Heinz Stussak
Editing	Editor	Karina Ressler
Sound	Sound	Bruno Pisek
Camera	Director of Photography	Peter Roehsler
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