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A Film Unfinished

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Original title: Shtikat Haarchion / A Film Unfinished
Year: 2009
Running time: 89 min.
Country: Germany
Director: Yael Hersonski
Screenwriter: Yael Hersonski
Cast: Documentary
Music: Ishai Adar
Cinematography: Itai Ne'eman
Producer: Co-production Germany-Israel;
Genre: Documentary | Nazism. Propaganda
Synopsis: Yael Hersonski's powerful documentary achieves a remarkable feat through its penetrating look at another film-the now-infamous Nazi-produced film about the Warsaw Ghetto. Discovered after the war, the unfinished work, with no soundtrack, quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record, despite its elaborate propagandistic construction. The later discovery of a long-missing reel complicated earlier readings, 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.

Awards: 2010: Sundance: Best Editing of Documentary Internacional

2010: Satellite Awards: Nominated for Best Documentary

2010: National Board of Review (NBR): nominated to Top Documentaries (In alphabetical order).

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A Film Unfinished

2009

Yael Hersonski

6.7

(195)