The 81st Blow

The 81st Blow (Hebrew: המכה ה-81 and also known as The Eighty-First Blow) is a 1974 Israeli documentary film directed by Haim Gouri. The film covers the oppression of Jews under the Nazis and features rare historical footage of concentration camps. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[1][2] The title is derived from a comment by a witness at Adolf Eichmann's trial. According to his testimony, he was whipped 80 times by the Nazis, but was not believed by Israelis after the war; this final doubt of his own people was the "81st blow". The 81st Blow is the first film in the Israeli Holocaust Trilogy by Bergman, Ehrlich and Gouri.[3] It was followed by The Last Sea (1984) and Flames in the Ashes (1985).

The 81st Blow
Directed byDavid Bergman
Jacques "Jacquo" Ehrlich
Haim Gouri
Written byHaim Gouri
Produced byDavid Bergman
Jacques Ehrlich
Haim Gouri
Beit Lohamei HaGhettaot
Edited byJacques Ehrlich
Production
company
Release date
  • 1974 (1974)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryIsrael
LanguagesYiddish
Hebrew

References
  1. "NY Times: The 81st Blow". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on 18 October 2012. Retrieved 15 November 2008.
  2. "The 47th Academy Awards (1975) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  3. Loshitzky, Yosefa; Identity politics on the Israeli screen. 2001: University of Texas Press.


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