| Stalags | |
| Director: | Ari Libsker |
| Producer: | Barak Heymann Ari Libsker |
| Editing: | Morris Ben-Mayor |
| Distributor: | Film Forum |
| Runtime: | 63 minutes |
| Country: | Israel |
| Language: | Hebrew |
Stalags (Hebrew: סטאלגים, Hebrew: Stalagim, also known in English as Stalags: Holocaust and Pornography in Israel[1]) is a 2008 Israeli documentary film produced by Barak Heymann and directed by Ari Libsker. The film examines the history of Stalags, pornography books that featured sexy female Nazi officers sexually abusing male camp prisoners. The pocket books broke sales records and sold hundreds of thousands of copies in Israel in the 1960s during the trial of Adolf Eichmann. After the authors of the books were accused of distributing anti-Semitic pornography, the popularity of the books declined. The documentary opened in limited release on April 9, 2008.
The documentary received mixed reviews from critics. As of May 5, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 50% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 12 reviews.[2] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 53 out of 100, based on 5 reviews.[3]