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A Film Unfinished 2010 MISC MULTISUB (DVD5)

Year: 2010 Country: Germany, Israel Director: Yael Hersonski Cast: Hanna Avrutzki, Luba Gewisser, Jurek Plonski, Aliza Vitis-Shomron IMBD: Link Language : German, Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, English Subtitles : German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian Yael Hersonski’s A Film Unfinished (2010), which refigures and problematizes a Nazi propaganda film of the Warsaw ghetto, is a symptomatic case. For almost half a century, an unfinished propaganda reel of the Warsaw ghetto, without soundtrack or credits, simply titled Das Ghetto and discovered by East German archivists after the war, was used in several documentaries and by institutions as a record of ghetto life. Shot over 30 days in May 1942 – just two months before deportations to Treblinka would begin –, this hour long silent film interweaved scenes of Jews enjoying various luxuries with images of profound suffering and despair. These images were subjected to a radical revision in 1998 with the appearance in an American air force base of another reel that included thirty minutes of outtakes, frames from the raw footage showing the extent to which those scenes had been deliberately staged. No documentation exists to clarify the Nazis’ intended usage of the footage, but the juxtaposition of images showing wealthy Jews and impoverished people living in appalling conditions indicates that the purpose of the Warsaw ghetto film, as an Anti-Semitic propaganda piece, was to depict the Jewish race as socially corrupt and to convey the idea that death and starvation in the ghetto were caused by the cruelty of the Jewish upper class. Similarly to other Nazi feature films with an Anti Semitic agenda, such as the false documentary The Eternal Jew (Fritz Hippler, 1940), the Warsaw ghetto footage was most likely intended to foster Anti-Semitic feelings among the German population and prove that Jewish people deserved to be eradicated. The intensification of the war effort and the beginning of mass deportations may have determined the rapid obsolescence of these images, making the film, after all, unnecessary. Nevertheless, the footage still brings out the disconcerting parallel between acts of conservation and acts of destruction, and the paradox inherent to wartime footage intended to capture and preserve for history the traces of a life already targeted for annihilation. In this way, the intended usage of these images could have been more prospective than that of a propaganda film for immediate dissemination. Indeed, the Nazi concern with the image of the Jews was projected into the future. As Ernst van Alphen has pointed out, liquidation was not enough for the Nazis; since the Jews, after the extermination, could live on in memory, that memory had to be cautiously orchestrated and managed by the Nazis. In A Film Unfinished, Israeli director Yael Hersonski reframes the entirety of the original footage of Das Ghetto through a complex web of viewpoints that shed light on the fabricated layers of those images. By rescreening the entire film through a present-day lens, Hersonski also recaptures the dynamics of destruction and survival inherent to Nazi archival imagery. In conceding these perpetrator images an afterlife whilst trying to confront them, A Film Unfinished thinks both with and against Nazi visuality, thus raising critical issues with regard to the “archival turn”, the appropriation of historical footage and the representation of the past in contemporary film. 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