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lsanderson ([personal profile] lsanderson) wrote2010-08-20 04:35 am

A Film Unfinished NYT Critics' Pick


A scene from Yael Hersonski’s “Film Unfinished,” an investigation into an incomplete Nazi propaganda movie.
An Israeli Finds New Meanings in a Nazi Film
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: August 17, 2010
For almost half a century, an unfinished Nazi propaganda film of the Warsaw Ghetto, simply titled “Das Ghetto” and discovered by East German archivists after the war, was used by scholars and historians as a flawed but authentic record of ghetto life. Shot over 30 days in May 1942 — just two months before deportations to the Treblinka extermination camp would begin — this hourlong silent film juxtaposed random scenes of Jews enjoying various luxuries with images of profound suffering. More

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