Strange Victory

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Where to watch

Criterion Channel

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Overview

Strange Victory" is about racial bias in post World War II America. Following "Native Land" in Leo Hurwitz' filmography, it uses some of the same techniques: dramatized scenes interspersed with scenes of compilation news reel footage, and scenes of evocative imagery.

Cast

Alfred Drake

Narrator

Muriel Smith

Narrator

Gary Merrill

Narrator

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Saul Levitt

Narrator

V

Virgil Richardson

Narrator

Other films by Leo Hurwitz

Discovery in a Painting

2016

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

1980

Discovery in a Landscape

1970

Light and the City

1970

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