A Film Unfinished (2010)

Yael Hersonskis powerful documentary achieves a remarkable feat through its penetrating look at another filmthe nowinfamous Naziproduced film about the Warsaw Ghetto Discovered after the war the unfinished work with no soundtrack quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record despite its elaborate propagandistic construction The later discovery of a longmissing reel complicated earlier readings showing the manipulations of camera crews in these everyday scenes Wellheeled Jews attending elegant dinners and theatricals while callously stepping over the dead bodies of compatriots now appeared as unwilling but complicit actors alternately fearful and in denial of their looming fate