Description
Trailer
Synopsis
LOST CITY made shockwaves in the international press when the film premiered in the Netherlands. The film reveals that, as late as 1947, the Amsterdam transit authority hired a debt collector because they never received payment from the Nazis for the deportation of Anne Frank.
It reveals the untold story of the Amsterdam city tram that collaborated with the Nazis and deported tens of thousands of Jews. We experience their last tram ride. A survivor: “Everybody knew, everybody saw it, and nobody took action. People looked away”. The city lost its Jewish soul forever.
Director
Willy Lindwer
Film director and author Willy Lindwer was born in Amsterdam in 1946 to a Jewish family. He studied at the Dutch Film Academy and achieved international recognition with The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank, which won an Emmy Award in 1988. In 1993, he received a Golden Calf – the highest honor in Dutch filmmaking—for Child in Two Worlds, about Jewish war foster children. In 2010, he was knighted as an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau for his body of work, particularly his films addressing the Holocaust
