Lviv’s Cinemas During World War II
Andrzej Dębski
andrzej_debski@poczta.onet.plUniversity of Wrocław (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0725-5765
Paulina Korneluk
University of Wrocław (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3732-4976
Abstract
The article discusses the functioning of cinemas in Lviv during World War II, with a focus on the years 1941-1944. The Nazi authorities introduced a division of Lviv cinemas into those for Germans, Poles, and Ukrainians. These three cinema categories therefore attracted different audiences (in terms of nationality), towards which the occupying authorities pursued separate repertoire policies. The article will analyse the nationality-oriented film policies of the Nazi authorities towards these three groups and their film preferences. The period of Soviet occupation (1939-1941) will also be addressed, albeit not in detail. By taking it into account, it will be possible to highlight some differences in the approach of the Soviet and German occupiers to film policy in Lviv. This research would not have been effective without the use of quantitative methods to compare large sets of repertoire data.
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Keywords:
German occupation, Soviet occupation, cinema of the Third Reich, cinema during World War II, cinema in GeneralgouvernementReferences
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Andrzej Dębskiandrzej_debski@poczta.onet.pl
University of Wrocław Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0725-5765
Professor at the Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies at the University of Wrocław. Author of the books Historia kina we Wrocławiu w latach 1896-1918 [History of Cinema in Wrocław in 1896-1918] (2009) and Nowoczesność, rozrywka, propaganda. Historia kina we Wrocławiu w latach 1919-1945 [Modernity, Entertainment, Propaganda: History of Cinema in Wrocław in 1919-1945] (2019). Co-editor of volumes devoted to the history of cinema in Wrocław and Lower Silesia, Wrocław film directors (Stanisław Lenartowicz, Sylwester Chęciński), and Polish-German film relations, as well as an anthology on early cinema.
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Paulina KornelukUniversity of Wrocław Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3732-4976
PhD candidate at the Institute of Art History of the University of Wrocław, Slavic scholar (Ukrainian philology) and art historian. She prepared her doctoral dissertation Odczytać miasto czyli Zamość wyobrażony (1772-1939) – architektura, urbanistyka, historia, pamięć, miejsca [Reading the City or Zamość Imagined (1772-1939) – Architecture, Urban Planning, History, Memory, Places] under the supervision of Professor Agnieszka Zabłocka-Kos. Her research interests focus on the history, architecture, art, political and social conflicts in the 19th and 20th centuries in Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Belarusian, and Russian territories. In 2023-2024, she held a scholarship as part of the OPUS-22 National Science Centre research project “Chodzenie do kina w Polsce pod okupacją niemiecką. Programowanie kin i preferencje filmowe wieloetnicznych publiczności miejskich podczas drugiej wojny światowej na przykładzie Krakowa, Warszawy i Lwowa” [“Going to the Cinema in Poland under German Occupation: Cinema Programming and Film Preferences of Multi-Ethnic Urban Audiences During World War II on the Example of Krakow, Warsaw and Lviv”].
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