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This rarely seen, stylistically bold documentary equals the visual, poetic brilliance of Battleship Potemkin and I am Cuba while delivering an extraordinary cry from the heart to make a better place for our children. Skillfully combining documentary footage of World War II battles, postwar refugees, and the Nuremberg trials with powerful dramatic re-enactments, Hurwitz wove an extraordinary cinematic portrait of postwar American Fascism. How could it be, the film asked, that servicemen returned home from defeating a racist and genocidal enemy found the United States plagued by racism, Jim Crow, anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, and xenophobia? Strange Victory — a cry for equality and justice — was promptly branded “procommunist” and a financial flop. Hurwitz was blacklisted from film and television for more than a decade and Virgil Richardson (a former Tuskegee Airman), who portrayed a black vet in the film, chose to emigrate to Mexico to escape to US racism.
Original Release
09/25/1948
US Release
09/25/1948
Cast
Name | Character |
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Alfred Drake | Narrator |
Muriel Smith | Narrator |
Gary Merrill | Narrator |
Virgil Richardson | Self / Narrator |
Leo Hurwitz | Father looking in nursery window |
Saul Levitt | Narrator |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Alfred Drake | Narrator |
Muriel Smith | Narrator |
Gary Merrill | Narrator |
Virgil Richardson | Self / Narrator |
Leo Hurwitz | Father looking in nursery window |
Saul Levitt | Narrator |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Barney Rosset | Producer |