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A Film Unfinished

Germany • 1h 31m

Directed by Yael Hersonski • Documentary • 2010 • 90 minutes

This potent documentary uses a long-lost film reel to illustrate how the Nazis controlled images of Jewish life during World War II. Though the Nazis made a propaganda movie of contented Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, the missing spool exposes the truth. Director Yael Hersonski shows how the imagery was staged to distort historical knowledge and, with the aid of Jewish survivors' testimony, chronicles the horrifying reality of ghetto life.

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1942, 20th century, a film unfinished, communication and media studies, documentary films, europe, expository, film and video studies, germany, ghetto, history, holocaust, jew, mass grave, nazi propaganda, nyt, oscilliscope films, oscilloscope, ovid, ovid_ca, poverty, s_0001, s_0074, s_0146, s_0342, s_0425, title_f, war footage, warsaw, western europe, world regions, world war ii

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