Film Unfinished

Theatrical Release Date: 2010 08 18 (USA - Limited)

UPC: 896602002258

Studio: Oscilloscope

MPAA Rating: NR   Contains:[Nudity, Adult Situations]

Summary: In 1942, more than two years after Nazi troops herded Poland's Jews into a ghetto in Warsaw, where they were to be held until they were sent to extermination camps, a handful of cameramen were sent into the ghetto to shoot material that was intended for a German propaganda film. The images they captured ran the gamut from blas? scenes of day-to-day life to horrific moments of death and despair. The film was never completed, but after the war, the unedited footage, running roughly an hour, was discovered in a German archive. Yael Hersonski's documentary Shtikat Haarchion (aka A Film Unfinished) presents the surviving footage of the Warsaw ghetto in full for the first time; along with the archival images, Hersonski includes interviews with five survivors of the ghetto, who talk about what was captured on film and their lives under the Nazis, as well as a member of the camera crew who offers a perspective on the original intended slant of the film (which was, at least in part, meant to reveal the class differences between Jews of different economic status). A Film Unfinished received its world premiere at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Category: Culture & Society

Awards: Film Presented – Sundance Film Festival Film Presented – Hot Docs International Film Festival Film Presented – Berlin International Film Festival Film Presented – Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Best Documentary – National Board of Review

Features: Interview with Author And Film Researcher Adrian Wood
Scholar Michael Berenbaum on a Film Unfinished
Death Mills (1945) A Short Film By Billy Wilder - Includes some of the first footage shot from within concentration camps post-liberation
Study Guide - For Educators and Students to gain a deeper understanding of the themes and lessons of the film

With an Exclusive Essay by Author And Film Scholar Annette Insdorf

Film Unfinished

Format: DVD

Release Date: 03/08/2011

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Alternate Wide Screen

Audio: DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 90 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,German

Subtitles: English

Region: Universal Compatability

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Film Unfinished
1. Lost History [4:52]
2. Jewish Council [4:23]
3. "I Might See My Mother" [5:38]
4. Flowers, Furniture, Teapot [3:51]
5. Auerswald's Reports [4:59]
6. Willy Wist, Cameraman [4:58]
7. Garbage And Lipstick [4:04]
8. Waiting To Die [4:43]
9. Smuggling [7:08]
10. Underground Jewish Archive [5:01]
11. Surprising Discovery [4:30]
12. Dinner and Theater [6:54]
13. "A Jew Film" [6:50]
14. Death [8:05]
15. Ghetto In Color [2:04]
16. "Today I Can Cry" [6:25]
17. Faces [4:05]
18. End Credits [:00]

Cast and Crew: Nathaniel Hörnblowér  Executive Producer 
Noemi Schory  Producer 
Itay Ken-Tor  Producer 
Yael Hersonski  Director 
Ishai Adar  Composer (Music Score) 
Debra McClutchy  Producer 

Country: Germany,Israel