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Dir.: David Greenberg | 1975 | 10 minutes |

This short film presents, through pictures and images, the blood libels that European Jews were accused of through the generations: in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, in Nazi Germany, to the latest blood libel propagated in Poland by the Communist government. Greenberg makes exceptional use of the combination of film and painting. This film also includes found footage sequences from The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) by Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer.

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Dir.: David Greenberg | Australia 1968 | 90 minutes | English | Hebrew subtitles

The sole fictional feature film directed by David Greenberg has a distinct autobiographical dimension to it. The film follows the unusual relationship between a 16-year-old girl and an aging 40-year-old journalist, who decides to begin a new chapter in his life, leaves his family and starts editing a collection of poems by his deceased father. The movie is set in hedonistic Tel Aviv of the period following the Six Days War.