A film unfinished

Resource Information

The work A film unfinished represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

A film unfinished

Statement of responsibility

a production of Belfilms ; coproduced with Mittle Deutsche Rundfunk, MDR; Südwestfunk, SWR; Yes.docu ; in cooperation with Arte ; a film by Yael Hersonski ; producers, Itay Ken-Tor & Noemi Schory ; written and directed by Yael Hersonski

Contributor

• Schory, Noemi.
• Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002
• Wood, Adrian, 1955-
• Association relative à la télévision européenne
• Belfilms (Firm)
• Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
• Oscilloscope Laboratories (Firm)
• Südwestfunk (Baden-Baden, Germany)
• Yes Docu (Firm : Israel)
• Berenbaum, Michael, 1945-
• Hersonski, Yael.
• Insdorf, Annette
• Ken Tor, Itay.
• Kenan, Rona.

Director

• Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002
• Hersonski, Yael.

Narrator

• Kenan, Rona.

Producer

• Schory, Noemi.
• Ken Tor, Itay.

Screenwriter

• Hersonski, Yael.

Subject

• Concentration camps -- Poland
• Documentary films
• Feature films
• Germany -- History -- 1933-1945
• Germany -- History -- 1945-1955
• Historical films
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland | Warsaw
• Nazi propaganda -- Poland | Warsaw
• Nonfiction films
• Personal narratives
• Short films
• Unedited footage
• Unfinished films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Propaganda

Genre

• Unfinished films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Historical films
• Personal narratives, Jewish
• Feature films
• Documentary films
• Short films
• Unedited footage
• Personal narratives
• Nonfiction films

Language

• eng
• ger
• heb
• pol
• yid
• eng
• ger

Summary

• At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film in an East German archive was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May of 1942, the film became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. The later discovery of a long-missing reel, including multiple takes and cameramen staging scenes, complicated earlier readings of the footage. Presented is the raw footage in its entirety, falsely showing the 'good life' of Jewish urbanites. Included is an interview, and more
• Death Mills: "Directed by...Billy Wilder for the U.S. War Department in 1945, [this film] was originally intended for screening in occupied Germany and Austria and featured a German language soundtrack...[T]he first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder." -- Onscreen menu

Awards note

Winner, World cinema doc editing award, Sundance Film Festival ; Winner, Best International Feature, Hot Docs Film Festival ; Winner, Documentary screenplay award, AFI/Silverdocs Film Festival.

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Itai Neeman ; editor, Joëlle Alexis ; music, Ishai Adar

Intended audience

Not rated

Language note

In German, English, Hebrew, Polish, and Yiddish ; optional English subtitles ; optional English captions for the hearing impaired

PerformerNote

Witnesses, Hanna Avrutzki, Luba Gewisser, Jurek (David) Plonski, Aliza Vitis-Shomron, Shula Zeder ; narration read by Rona Kenan

Runtime

90

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action