Filming ritual murder after the Shoah: exculpation, deflection or contrition?

Michael L. Miller

doi:10.1080/13501674.2025.2480732

Filming ritual murder after the Shoah: exculpation, deflection or contrition?

Michael L. Miller^*

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This article examines the debate over Der Prozeß (1947), a film by the Austrian director G. W. Pabst about the Tiszaeszlár ritual murder trial. The film stirred up controversy not only because the topic was considered too provocative so soon after the Shoah but also because an Austrian director, who had worked in the German film industry under Nazism, chose a Hungarian topic for his film on antisemitism. Pabst himself understood his film as a form of penance for the crimes of Nazism.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	274-284
Number of pages	11
Journal	East European Jewish Affairs
Volume	53
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13501674.2025.2480732
State	Published - 24 Mar 2025

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Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Holocaust film
Hungary
Ritual murder
antisemitism

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Filming ritual murder after the Shoah: exculpation, deflection or contrition?

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