Leo Haas: Artist and Witness of His Times (movie)
Leo Haas: Zeichner - Zeuge - Zeitgenosse- User score: 10
- Production country: East Germany, Germany
- Producer: Jörg d'Bomba
- Production companies: DEFA-Studio für Trickfilme
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 6/25/1971
- Run time: 13 min.
Movie description
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.
