Movie Title : A Film Unfinished Release Date : Aug 18, 2010 Limited Genre Movie :Documentary,Television,Art House & International,Special Interest
Mpaa Rating : Unrated
Actors :Alexander Beyer,Rüdiger Vogler
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, Film Forum is proud to present Yael Hersonski's A FILM UNFINISHED, having its U.S. theatrical premiere on Wednesday, August 18. Since the end of WWII, one copy of a 60-minute (unfinished) propaganda film, shot by the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto in May 1942 (a year prior to the uprising), labeled simply "Ghetto," sat undisturbed in an East German archive. A FILM UNFINISHED presents the entire film, both documentary and fictionalized sequences (e.g. dozens of Jewish patrons at an elegant restaurant; a luxurious funeral cortege). It includes a revealing interview with Willy Wist, the only cinematographer identified with the production (himself caught onscreen in his SS uniform), as well as scenes in which now-elderly former residents of the Warsaw Ghetto, reviewing the footage, occasionally recognize their neighbors, or report upon the filmmakers' efforts to stage fantasies of affluence and well-being, or of Jews treating their less fortunate compatriots with callous disdain. This is a film of enormous import: it documents conditions under which ghetto residents lived and the efforts (however imperfect) of the perpetrators to recast this reality to suggest an entirely different scenario. A FILM UNFINISHED is presented with support from the Joan S. Constantiner Fund for Jewish and Holocaust Film. -- (C) Film Forum
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An electrifying essay on film's ability to falsify history.Colin Covert-Minneapolis Star Tribune
Filmmaker Yael Hersonski reshapes the impossibly vile and tragic source material into a devastating record of Nazi criminality.
Cliff Doerksen-Chicago Reader
Yael Hersonski's documentary is infuriating, heartbreaking, devastating -- and scary. It depicts a lie upon a lie.
Bill Goodykoontz-Arizona Republic
A remarkable new documentary that reminds us of film's inherent capacity for lying.
Chris Vognar-Dallas Morning News
A Film Unfinished reminds you that the nightmare of the Holocaust knows no limits.
Rene Rodriguez-Miami Herald
Discovered after the war, the film contains horrific images of starvation, poverty and humiliation, interspersed with surreal scenes of well-dressed Jews enjoying a restaurant dinner or an urban stroll.
Moira MacDonald-Seattle Times
Riveting, scary, and significant, Film Unfinished contrasts invaluable footage of agit-prop Nazi feature with the reaction of Warsaw Gehtto survivors to that footage and testimonies of the real life thee.
Emanuel Levy-EmanuelLevy.Com
Painful, 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
Brandon Judell-GreenCine
A heartbreaking but engrossing detective story that not only shines a light on Nazi evil but on the manipulative prowess of the Third Reich.
Mike Scott-Times-Picayune
The more it strips itself to the evidence... the more devastating and affecting the portrait becomes.
Sean Axmaker-Parallax View
...a very powerful documentary and first feature by Yael Hersonski.
Elias Savada-Film Threat
Hersonski brings something both old and new to the table with this powerful 89-minute documentary. Other strengths are the well-written narration read by Rona Keenan and the haunting original music of composer Yishai Adar.
Keith Cohen-Entertainment Spectrum
A Film Unfinished is a sort of ghost story. It's guaranteed to haunt you.
Robert W. Butler-Kansas City Star
Examination of Nazi inhumanity by an Israeli director on record as opposing Zionist inhumanity.
Louis Proyect-rec.arts.movies.reviews
It's impossible to watch A Film Unfinished and not feel haunted by the restless ghosts of history and those who tried -- and failed -- to use film to tell a lie.
Marc Savlov-Austin Chronicle
...analysis, clarification and a counterbalancing - if not outright refutation - of the persistent, nasty myth of Jewish collaboration in the Holocaust.
Philip Martin-Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Yael Hersonski's A Film Unfinished reclaims history, teaches a lesson about the reliability of images and raises unanswerable questions about complicity.
Joe Williams-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Moviegoers have witnessed dozens of depictions of these events over the years, but here we can see what it's like to view them with the eyes of real experience.
Josh Bell-Las Vegas Weekly
A searing expose of the brutality of the Nazi regime ironically made by the perpetrators themselves, and a subtle examination of the process and purpose that lay behind it.
Frank Swietek-One Guy's Opinion
The title also refers to Hersonski's own picture, part of a continuing saga that will never be finished as long as there are more Holocaust stories to expose.
Matt Brunson-Creative Loafing
A flawed but hard-to-shake doc of one of mankind's greatest acts of inhumanity
Jeff Meyers-Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
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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.TagLine A Film Unfinished In 1942 The Nazi Propaganda Machine Was Hard at Work. 70 Years Later, The Deceit is Finally Unmasked.
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