Shtikat Haarchion (2010)

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88 min - Documentary | Drama | History - 30 October 2010 (UK)

7.2

Ratings: 7.2/10 from 880 users Metascore: 88/100
Reviews: 8 user | 54 critic | 19 from Metacritic.com

A film about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation forever changing the way we look at historic images.

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Cast

Cast overview:
	Hanna Avrutzki	...	Herself - Witness
	Luba Gewisser	...	Herself - Witness
	Jurek Plonski	...	Himself - Witness (as Jurek 'David' Plonski)
	Aliza Vitis-Shomron	...	Herself - Witness
	Shula Zeder	...	Herself - Witness
	Janusz Hamerszmit	...	Adam Czerniakow (voice)
	Eliezer Niborski	...	Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum (voice)
	Alexander Senderovich	...	Chaim Kaplan / Ben Shem (voice)
	Mendy Cahan	...	Abraham Lewin / Hersh Waser (voice)
	Hava Alberstein	...	Rachel Auerbach (voice)
	Gera Sandler	...	Jonas Turkow (voice)
	Axel Thielmann	...	Auerswald (voice)
	Rona Kenan	...	Narrator (voice)
	Rüdiger Vogler	...	Cameraman: reconstruction
	Alexander Beyer	...	Interrogator: reconstruction

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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. Written by Sundance Film Festival

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