Rent A Film Unfinished (2010)
3.8 of 5 from 59 ratings
1h 30min
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- Synopsis:
The Warsaw Ghetto housed 440,000 Polish Jews during World War II.Typhus, starvation and random murders killed over 100,000 of the ghetto's residents even before the Nazis began the massive deportations to the Treblinka extermination camp. During this time the Nazis created a mysterious propaganda film shot in the Ghetto in May 1942 that juxtaposed meticulously staged scenes of Jews enjoying a life of luxury in the ghetto with other, chilling images that required no staging at all. After the war, filmmakers and museums - unaware of the deception - used images from the film as objective illustrations of life in the ghetto, which subsequently became engraved as historical truth. The later discovery of a 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. - Actors:
- Alexander Beyer, Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Avrutzki, Luba Gewisser, Jurek Plonski, Aliza Vitis-Shomron, Shula Zeder
- Directors:
- Yael Hersonski
- Producers:
- Itai Ken-Tor, Noemi Schory
- Voiced By:
- Janusz Hamerszmit, Eliezer Niborski, Alexander Senderovich, Mendy Cahan, Hava Alberstein, Gera Sandler, Axel Thielmann
- Narrated By:
- Rona Kenan
- Writers:
- Yael Hersonski
- Others:
- Joëlle Alexis
- Aka:
- Shtikat Haarchion
- Studio:
- Artefact Films
- Genres:
- Documentary
- Countries:
- Israel
- Awards:
2010 Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Editing Award Documentary
