Past Film/Video | Classics

Deveti krug

(The Ninth Circle, France Štiglic, 1960)

New Restoration

Info & Tickets

A young woman wearing a Star of David patch and an older man in a suit are standing next to each other looking around the corner of a building.

Nov 14, 2024–Nov 17, 2024

Thu, Nov 14, 7:00 PM
Sun, Nov 17, 1:00 PM

Film/Video Theater

$8 members and adults 55 and over
$10 general public
$5 students

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From the former Yugoslavia, a gripping tale of a family and romance torn apart by the Holocaust.

Recently restored and rarely screened, France Štiglic’s Deveti krug (The Ninth Circle) is thought to be the first Yugoslavian film to address the Holocaust by directly portraying the concentration camps. Shot in a style that approaches noir in some of the most frantic moments, the film follows a Jewish girl who is taken in by a friendly Croatian family in Zagreb after her family is captured by the Nazis and put on trucks bound for a concentration camp. She marries the son of the family in hopes that it will hide her Jewish identity, but she is eventually found out and captured. Her young husband, determined to find her, comes face-to-face with the horrors of concentration camps, especially for young women. In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles. (97 mins., DCP)

IMAGE CAPTION
Deveti krug, courtesy of the Croatian Film Archives (Croatian Cinematheque).

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Film/Video

Restored in 2020 by Hrvatski Državni Arhiv – Hrvatska Kinoteka with funding provided by Hrvatski Audiovizualni Centar at Ater and Klik Film laboratories, from the original camera negative and a composite duplicate positive created by photochemical restoration.

Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Melton Center for Jewish Studies.

FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
National Endowment for the Arts
Ohio Humanities

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Rohauer Collection Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Greater Columbus Arts Council 
The Wexner Family
Institute of Museum and Library Services 
Mellon Foundation
Every Page Foundation
Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
CampusParc
Nationwide Foundation
Lois S. and H. Roy Chope Fund of The Columbus Foundation
Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme
The Columbus Foundation
Axium Packaging

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Ohio State Energy Partners
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection
David Crane and Elizabeth Dang
Melissa Gilliam and William Grobman
Rebecca Perry Damsen and Ben Towle