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| שתיקת הארכיון | |
| Directed by | Yael Hersonski |
| Written by | Yael Hersonski |
| Produced by | Itai Ken-Tor Philippa Kowarsky Noemi Schory |
| Narrated by | Rona Kenan |
| Cinematography | Itai Ne'eman |
| Edited by | Joel Alexis |
| Music by | Yishai Adar |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Countries | Germany Israel |
| Languages | English with subtitles for Hebrew, German and Polish |
| Box office | $311,542(USA) |
A Film Unfinished (Hebrew title:שתיקת הארכיוןShtikat haArkhion, German title:Geheimsache Ghettofilm) is a 2010documentary film by Yael Hersonski.
The film re-examines the making of an unfinished 1942 Germanpropaganda film (titledDas Ghetto, "The Ghetto") depicting theWarsaw Ghetto two months before the mass extermination of its inhabitants in the German operation known as theGrossaktion Warsaw. The documentary features interviews with surviving ghetto residents and a re-enactment of testimony from Willy Wist, one of the camera operators who filmed scenes forDas Ghetto.
It premiered at the2010 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the "World Cinema Documentary Editing Award". At theHot Docs festival in Toronto, the film won theBest International Feature Documentary award.[1] The film was released theatrically in the US on 18 August 2010.[2]
The film's distributor,Oscilloscope, appealed to theMPAA over the film's R rating but was unsuccessful in reclassifying the film.[3][4][5] Oscilloscope says that the R rating is inconsistent with cultural norms because theU.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, which is visited by school children, has more graphic footage.[6]
OnRotten Tomatoes the documentary has an approval rating of 97% based on reviews from 65 critics. The site's consensus states "A heartbreaking, haunting historical document,A Film Unfinished excavates a particularly horrible chapter of Holocaust history, and in doing so, the film provides a glimpse into the Nazi propaganda machine."[7] OnMetacritic it has a score of 88% based on reviews from 19 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[8]
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