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A film by Philo Bregstein
In THE PAST THAT LIVES, Jacob Presser, the great Dutch
historian, gives an intensely personal narrative which is embedded in the tremendous upheavals of European history in the first half of the twentieth century. Filmmaker Philo Bregstein interweaves this account with extensive Dutch and German archival still photography and film, to create a moving portrait of pre-war Amsterdam and its transformations.
historian, gives an intensely personal narrative which is embedded in the tremendous upheavals of European history in the first half of the twentieth century. Filmmaker Philo Bregstein interweaves this account with extensive Dutch and German archival still photography and film, to create a moving portrait of pre-war Amsterdam and its transformations.