A Film Unfinished
In 1942 The Nazi Propaganda Machine Was Hard at Work. 70 Years Later, The Deceit is Finally Unmasked.
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 8, 2011
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Oscilloscope
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Yael Hersonski | |
Composition by | Ishai Adar |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 10/10 --
Painful, eye-opening, and extraordinarily necessary to view, especially by the young to whom the Holocaust is nowadays too abstract a notion to fully mentally envision in all of its grotesqueness
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GreenCine
3 stars out of 4 -- The film doesn't hit you over the head, but in its own way, it is quietly devastating.
Washington Post
A FILM UNFINISHES is affecting as a rare document of a terrible place and time, and those who lied there. -- Grade: B
A.V. Club
Rating: A- --
Riveting, scary, and significant, Film Unfinished contrasts invaluable footage of agit-prop Nazi feature with the reaction of Warsaw Gehtto survivors to that footage and testimonies of the real life thee.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 4/5 --
A tremendously powerful historical documentary... [Full review in Spanish]
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Rincón de cine
Rating: 4/4 --
A heartbreaking but engrossing detective story that not only shines a light on Nazi evil but on the manipulative prowess of the Third Reich.
Times-Picayune
Yael Hersonski's A Film Unfinished reclaims history, teaches a lesson about the reliability of images and raises unanswerable questions about complicity.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Product Description:
In 1942, more than two years after Nazi troops herded Poland's Jews into a ghetto in Warsaw, where they were to be held until they were sent to extermination camps, a handful of cameramen were sent into the ghetto to shoot material that was intended for a German propaganda film. The images they captured ran the gamut from blasé scenes of day-to-day life to horrific moments of death and despair. The film was never completed, but after the war, the unedited footage, running roughly an hour, was discovered in a German archive. Yael Hersonski's documentary SHTIKAT HAARCHION (aka A FILM UNFINISHED) presents the surviving footage of the Warsaw ghetto in full for the first time; along with the archival images, Hersonski includes interviews with five survivors of the ghetto, who talk about what was captured on film and their lives under the Nazis, as well as a member of the camera crew who offers a perspective on the original intended slant of the film (which was, at least in part, meant to reveal the class differences between Jews of different economic status). A FILM UNFINISHED received its world premiere at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival.
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