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The Danube Exodus (1999)

Name: The Danube Exodus
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2023-09-30T09:36:06+02:00
Rating: 4.5

Documentary | 60 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 60 minuten

Alternative title: Exodus over de Donau

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Péter Forgács

IMDb score: 7,7 (54)

Releasedate: 29 July 1998

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The Danube Exodus plot

In this travelogue, Forgács documents the Jewish exodus from Slovakia at the start of the Second World War with the aid of found footage material in the first part. A group of 350 Slovak and Austrian Jews travels in two ships down the Danube and tries to reach Palestine via the Black Sea. The second part focuses on the exodus of pure-bred Germans from Bessarabia, who had built up their own society there for many years. About 100,000 persons were transported across the Danube back to their homeland.