The Making of Triumph of the Spirit - part 4 of 5

This is part 4 of 5. I encourage you to view all 5 parts, each is distinct. I produced this documentary in Auschwitz over a 4 month period in 1989. Poland was still under Communist rule for the first 2 months I was there. We had unprecedented access to shoot film and video inside industrial complexes like the Katowice Steel Mill. It was an amazing time to be on the planet, seeing Eastern Europe during and at the fall of Communism. When Communism fell it took weeks for the news to disseminate thru Poland. We heard about it from our friends in California and the locals in Poland thought it was a mean joke, they didn't believe us that their country was free, they couldn't comprehend it. This film won the Gold Award in 1990 at Worldfest Houston. The movie on which the documentary was based starred Willem Dafoe, Edward James Olmos, and Robert Loggia. The feature was critically acclaimed but not widely released, and the documentary was never released at all. Sadly the documentary was not even included by MGM Home Video in the DVD of the feature film. Happily tho, we have YouTube. Kudos to director Robert M. Young and to my father, producer Arnold Kopelson whose passion for filmmaking -- and desire for healing -- drove the production of Triumph of the Spirit. The 4 months I lived in Poland forever changed my life. I hope this work contributes in some way to our understanding of the true human cost of the Holocaust. Evan Kopelson, producer

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[ohiodarlin]

This was such a powerful movie. So many indies are overlooked by the general public and they miss out!

[alexstudios19]

scrivo dall'italia,mi chiamo alexander Loggia,chissà se con il signor robert siamo parenti?