A Film Unfinished
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Yael Hersonski
Rona Kenan
Luba Gewisser
Hanna Avrutzki
Ishai Adar
Joëlle Alexis
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
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, labeled simply "Ghetto," sat undisturbed in an East German archive. "A Film Unfinished" presents the entire film, carefully noting fictionalized sequences The film's documentary footage is of an entirely different nature: corpses on sidewalks, beggars pacing the streets, children ravaged by hunger. The film includes a revealing interview with the only cinematographer identified with the production, as well as scenes in which now-elderly former residents of the Warsaw Ghetto review footage and occasionally recognize their neighbors.
Director
Yael Hersonski
Film Details
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the Best International Film Award at the 2010 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival.
Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Editing Award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
Released in United States 2010
Released in United States August 18, 2010
Released in United States February 2010
Released in United States January 2010
Released in United States June 2010
Released in United States on Video March 8, 2011
Released in United States 2010 (Shown at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival (International Spectrum) April 29-May 9, 2010.)
Released in United States January 2010 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (World Cinema Documentary Competition) January 21-31, 2010.)
Released in United States Summer August 18, 2010
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (Panorama) February 11-21, 2010.
Shown at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival (International Spectrum) April 29-May 9, 2010.
Shown at SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival (Sterling World Feature Competition) June 21-27, 2010.
Released in United States February 2010 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (Panorama) February 11-21, 2010.)
Released in United States on Video March 8, 2011
Released in United States June 2010 (Shown at SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival (Sterling World Feature Competition) June 21-27, 2010.)
Released in United States August 18, 2010 (New York City)
Feature directorial debut for Yael Hersonski.
Released in United States Summer August 18, 2010
