A Film Unfinished (DVD)

A Film Unfinished (2010), documentary. Directed by Yael Hersonski. In the spring of 1942, German propagandists shot reels of film in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. What the purpose of the film ultimately was is not known. They shot the good and the bad, the prosperous and the starving, the quick and the dead. Literally, they filmed corpses on the sidewalk in the ghetto. The intention apparently was to show that the Jews had a good life in the ghetto, but that they were indifferent to the suffering of others. This was of course false. But the film is revealing, and the testimony of the few survivors who could be found to talk in this documentary shows what the true purpose of the Nazis was. The subtitles are hard to read. Grade: B