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[BE THE FIRST TO RATE THIS MOVIE]Calorie Rating: 18
Released: 1971-06-25
Running Time: 13 Minutes
Studios: DEFA-Studio für Trickfilme,
When the Nazis took power, the Jewish artist Leo Haas (1901-1983) was arrested in his Czechoslovakian hometown. He spent the next six years in different concentration camps and became known for the paintings he did in the Theresienstadt camp. This film presents Haas as a political artist and resistance fighter and celebrates him as a socialist caricaturist dedicated to the GDR.