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Deveti krug

(The Ninth Circle, France Štiglic, 1960)

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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.

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)

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

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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

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