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===In cinema and literature=== *The book ''Tango of Death'' based on the true story of Jacob Mund, his orchestra, and dozens of thousands of other Jews who lived in Lviv at World War II. The book includes 60 documentary photos to show the violent truth of the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]]. *The 2011 film ''[[In Darkness (2011 film)|In Darkness]]'', Poland's entry in the [[84th Academy Awards]] category for Best Foreign Film, is based on a true incident in [[#German occupation|Nazi-occupied Lviv]]. *Some of the Austrian road-movie ''[[Blue Moon (2002 film)|Blue Moon]]'' was shot in Lviv. *Parts of the film and novel ''[[Everything Is Illuminated]]'' take place in Lviv. *Brian R. Banks' ''Muse & Messiah: The Life, Imagination & Legacy of [[Bruno Schulz]] (1892β1942)'' has several pages which discuss the history and cultural-social life of the Lviv region. The book includes a [[CD-ROM]] with many old and new photographs and the first English map of nearby [[Drohobych]]. *The book ''[[The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow]]'' by Krystyna Chiger takes place in Lviv. *Large parts of 1997 film ''[[The Truce (1997 film)|The Truce]]'' depicting [[Primo Levi]]'s war experiences were shot in Lviv. *Large portions of the film ''[[d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers]]'' were shot in central Lviv. *The book ''[[The Lemberg Mosaic]]'' (2011) by Jakob Weiss describes Jewish L'viv (Lemberg/Lwow/Lvov) during the period 1910β1943, focusing primarily on the Holocaust and related events. *In the book and film ''[[The Shoes of the Fisherman (disambiguation)|The Shoes of the Fisherman]]'' the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv is released from a Soviet [[labor camp]] and later elected [[Pope]]. *The 2015 film ''[[Varta 1 (2015 film)|Varta 1]]'', a movie which demonstrates the search for a new cinema features among young Ukrainian directors. The film uses the radio talks of the automobile patrols of activists of Lviv during EuroMaydan and it was made to create a better understanding of the nature of the revolution. The movie was shot and made in Lviv city. *In the book ''East West Street: On the Origins of 'Genocide' and 'Crimes Against Humanity''', Philippe Sands, a professor of law at University College London, recounts the life and work of Hersch Lauterpacht who introduced to international law the concept of the crime against humanity and Raphael Lemkin that of genocide. Both men lived and studied in Lviv.<ref>{{Cite news |last=LΓ©vy |first=Bernard-Henri |date=2016-05-23 |title='East West Street,' by Philippe Sands |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/books/review/east-west-street-by-philippe-sands.html |access-date=2023-02-25 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=28 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220228123259/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/books/review/east-west-street-by-philippe-sands.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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