Friday, February 21, 2014
Yael Hersonski's powerful documentary ‘A Film Unfinished’
Watched Yael Hersonski's powerful documentary ‘A Film Unfinished’ which is about a Nazi-produced film about the Warsaw Ghetto that set out to show the jewish people as a mix of uncaring and wealthy, poor and uncivilised. Discovered after the war this unfinished work had no soundtrack. But it is an authentic record, despite its elaborate propagandistic construction. The later discovery of a long-missing reel showing the manipulations of camera crews in these "everyday" scenes. Well-heeled Jews attending elegant dinners and theatricals (while callously stepping over the dead bodies of compatriots) now appeared as unwilling, but complicit, actors, alternately fearful and in denial of their looming fate. The film has reconstruction of the interrogation of Willy Wist one of the camera men who at first tries to deny his input but later starts to open up to describe what he saw as we watch the actual film. A shocking, hard to watch because it’s real footage but should be watch movie.
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