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 the... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaA profoundly unnerving historical document. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumHersonski quietly and insistently unravels reality from "reality"; her commitment to archival authenticity is its own tribute to those no longer able to testify. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrIt's the only film that exists of the Ghetto, and it's both revelatory and profoundly suspect. |
| GreenCineBrandon JudellPainful, 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 |
| Times-PicayuneMike ScottA heartbreaking but engrossing detective story that not only shines a light on Nazi evil but on the manipulative prowess of the Third Reich. |
| Parallax ViewSean AxmakerThe more it strips itself to the evidence... the more devastating and affecting the portrait becomes. |
| NOW TorontoNorman WilnerThere are literally dozens of documentaries about the Warsaw Ghetto, but A Film Unfinished is unique in a very horrible way. |
| New York PressArmond WhiteThink what Hannah Arendt could have made of this footage? Typical of contemporary advocacy journalism, Hersonski doesn't know what to do with this outrageous material except show it. |
| PopMattersCynthia FuchsThe Nazis' infatuation with documentation is visible everywhere in A Film Unfinished, as German soldiers grab residents' arms or push them along in the street, as starving children sit on curbs and adults hurry along sidewalks. |
| San Diego Union-TribuneAlison GangWhat we're seeing isn't the aftermath of an extermination plot, as in the post-liberation concentration camp films, but the dehumanization process itself. |
