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Orly Yadin & Sylvie BringasSilence (1998)

11-minute animated documentary film about a little girl holocaust survivor and her learned and self-imposed silences


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Producer: Orly Yadin & Sylvie Bringas
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: English
Keywords: animation; world war II; Theresienstadt; documentary; holocaust; childhood; identity
Contact Information: Sales on any tape format and DVD - orly@yadinproductions.com A DVD with many extras is available - storyboards, early scripts, animators' statements, Tana's recorded statement, articles on animation and documentary and much more. An essential tool for teachers and students of animation, documentary film and history.

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

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Reviewer: orly yadin - - August 9, 2009
Subject: instant classic
"...Next up is Silence, an instant classic from Sylvie Bringas and Orly Yadin. It's an animated tale of the Holocaust that artfully employs different styles (edgy, monochromatic scratchboard for life in the camps, throbbing watercolors for life in postwar Sweden) along with some supremely effective narration by Tana Ross. The film gives us a quietly horrifying, kid's-eye view of the camps without once lapsing into preachiness or heavy-handedness. It's a winner on all counts.
Greg Stacey, OC WEEKLY, July 13, 2000

Reviewer: orlyyadin - - December 27, 2008
Subject: Holocaust documentary
"[...] Silence, despite being only 11 minutes long, is arguably the most effective of all Holocaust documentaries."
Claiming the Real II
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by Brian Winston, a BFI book published 2008

Credits

Producers: Orly Yadin & Sylvie Bringas
Produced and written in collaboration with Tana Ross
Directors: Sylvie Bringas & Orly Yadin
Based on and adapted from "Through the Silence" by Noa Ain and Tana Ross
Colour scenes Director of Animation: Tim Webb
Black and White scenes Animator: Ruth Lingford
Original Music: Noa Ain
Editor: Tony Fish
Co-Producer in Sweden: Rock Film