A FILM UNFINISHED
Explores the Archival Discovery of Nazi-Shot Warsaw Ghetto Movie
Documentary Premieres Theatrically Wednesday, August 18
at Film Forum, NYC
Film Forum is proud to present Yael Hersonski’s A FILM UNFINISHED, having its U.S. theatrical premiere on Wednesday, August 18. 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 (a year prior to the uprising), labeled simply “Ghetto,” sat undisturbed in an East German archive.
A FILM UNFINISHED presents the entire film, both documentary and fictionalized sequences (e.g. dozens of Jewish patrons at an elegant restaurant; a luxurious funeral cortege). It includes a revealing interview with Willy Wist, the only cinematographer identified with the production (himself caught onscreen in his SS uniform), as well as scenes in which now-elderly former residents of the Warsaw Ghetto, reviewing the footage, occasionally recognize their neighbors, or report upon the filmmakers’ efforts to stage fantasies of affluence and well-being, or of Jews treating their less fortunate compatriots with callous disdain.
This is a film of enormous import: it documents conditions under which ghetto residents lived and the efforts (however imperfect) of the perpetrators to recast this reality to suggest an entirely different scenario. A FILM UNFINISHED is presented with support from the Joan S. Constantiner Fund for Jewish and Holocaust Film.
A FILM UNFINISHED will have a 2-week engagement, August 18-31, at Film Forum, West Houston Street (West of 6th Avenue), NYC, with screenings daily at 1:00, 2:50, 4:40, 6:30, 8:20 and 10:10.
Distrib website-http://www.oscilloscope.net/shop/view_film.php?ID=25&r=search
A FILM UNFINISHED (2010, 89 mins.) Directed by Yael Hersonski. Producers: Noemi Schory & Itay Ken-Tor for Belfilms Ltd. Camera: Itai Neeman. Editor: Joelle Alexis. Music: Ishai Adar. Sound designer: Avivi Aldema. Israel. In English, Hebrew, German, Polish & Yiddish with English subtitles. An Oscilloscope Laboratories release.
In Theaters
08/18/10 - New York, NY - Film Forum
08/18/10 - New York, NY - Lincoln Plaza
08/20/10 - Encino, CA - Laemmle Town Center
08/20/10 - Los Angeles, CA - Laemmle Royal
09/24/10 - Baltimore, MD - Charles
09/24/10 - Boston, MA - Landmark Kendall Square
09/24/10 - San Diego, CA - Landmark Ken
09/24/10 - Washington, DC - Landmark E Street
09/24/10 - West Newton, MA - Newton 6
10/01/10 - Berkeley, CA - Landmark Shattuck
10/01/10 - Chicago, IL - AMC River East
10/01/10 - Chicago, IL - Landmark Renaissance Place 5
10/01/10 - Mill Valley, CA - Cinemark Sequoia
10/01/10 - Phoenix, AZ - Camelview
10/01/10 - Pleasant Hill, CA - Cinemark CineArts
10/01/10 - San Francisco, CA - Landmark Opera Plaza
10/01/10 - San Jose, CA - Cinemark Santana Row
10/01/10 - Santa Barbara, CA - Riviera
10/15/10 - Palm Desert, CA - Cinemas Palme d'Or
10/15/10 - Philadelphia, PA - Landmark Ritz at the Bourse
10/15/10 - Seattle, WA - AMC Uptown
10/22/10 - Columbus, OH - Wexner Center
11/05/10 - Dallas, TX - Angelika
11/05/10 - Denver, CO - Landmark Chez Artiste
11/05/10 - Houston, TX - Angelika
11/05/10 - Miami, FL - Intracoastal 8
11/05/10 - Sunrise, FL - Sunrise 11
11/19/10 - Pittsburgh, PA - AMC Waterfront 22
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Explores the Archival Discovery of Nazi-Shot Warsaw Ghetto Movie
Documentary Premieres Theatrically Wednesday, August 18
at Film Forum, NYC
Film Forum is proud to present Yael Hersonski’s A FILM UNFINISHED, having its U.S. theatrical premiere on Wednesday, August 18. 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 (a year prior to the uprising), labeled simply “Ghetto,” sat undisturbed in an East German archive.
A FILM UNFINISHED presents the entire film, both documentary and fictionalized sequences (e.g. dozens of Jewish patrons at an elegant restaurant; a luxurious funeral cortege). It includes a revealing interview with Willy Wist, the only cinematographer identified with the production (himself caught onscreen in his SS uniform), as well as scenes in which now-elderly former residents of the Warsaw Ghetto, reviewing the footage, occasionally recognize their neighbors, or report upon the filmmakers’ efforts to stage fantasies of affluence and well-being, or of Jews treating their less fortunate compatriots with callous disdain.
This is a film of enormous import: it documents conditions under which ghetto residents lived and the efforts (however imperfect) of the perpetrators to recast this reality to suggest an entirely different scenario. A FILM UNFINISHED is presented with support from the Joan S. Constantiner Fund for Jewish and Holocaust Film.
A FILM UNFINISHED will have a 2-week engagement, August 18-31, at Film Forum, West Houston Street (West of 6th Avenue), NYC, with screenings daily at 1:00, 2:50, 4:40, 6:30, 8:20 and 10:10.
Distrib website-http://www.oscilloscope.net/shop/view_film.php?ID=25&r=search
A FILM UNFINISHED (2010, 89 mins.) Directed by Yael Hersonski. Producers: Noemi Schory & Itay Ken-Tor for Belfilms Ltd. Camera: Itai Neeman. Editor: Joelle Alexis. Music: Ishai Adar. Sound designer: Avivi Aldema. Israel. In English, Hebrew, German, Polish & Yiddish with English subtitles. An Oscilloscope Laboratories release.
In Theaters
08/18/10 - New York, NY - Film Forum
08/18/10 - New York, NY - Lincoln Plaza
08/20/10 - Encino, CA - Laemmle Town Center
08/20/10 - Los Angeles, CA - Laemmle Royal
09/24/10 - Baltimore, MD - Charles
09/24/10 - Boston, MA - Landmark Kendall Square
09/24/10 - San Diego, CA - Landmark Ken
09/24/10 - Washington, DC - Landmark E Street
09/24/10 - West Newton, MA - Newton 6
10/01/10 - Berkeley, CA - Landmark Shattuck
10/01/10 - Chicago, IL - AMC River East
10/01/10 - Chicago, IL - Landmark Renaissance Place 5
10/01/10 - Mill Valley, CA - Cinemark Sequoia
10/01/10 - Phoenix, AZ - Camelview
10/01/10 - Pleasant Hill, CA - Cinemark CineArts
10/01/10 - San Francisco, CA - Landmark Opera Plaza
10/01/10 - San Jose, CA - Cinemark Santana Row
10/01/10 - Santa Barbara, CA - Riviera
10/15/10 - Palm Desert, CA - Cinemas Palme d'Or
10/15/10 - Philadelphia, PA - Landmark Ritz at the Bourse
10/15/10 - Seattle, WA - AMC Uptown
10/22/10 - Columbus, OH - Wexner Center
11/05/10 - Dallas, TX - Angelika
11/05/10 - Denver, CO - Landmark Chez Artiste
11/05/10 - Houston, TX - Angelika
11/05/10 - Miami, FL - Intracoastal 8
11/05/10 - Sunrise, FL - Sunrise 11
11/19/10 - Pittsburgh, PA - AMC Waterfront 22
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