A Film Unfinished

In May 1942, three months before the Nazis liquidated the Warsaw Ghetto, a group of German soldiers were sent into the Ghetto to film Jewish life.  In the ensuing decades, filmmakers and others have used images from this apparent documentary.  Then in 1998 a long-missing reel of out-takes was discovered, that revealed that many of the scenes in the film were meticulously staged.

A Film Unfinished presents the raw footage from the original film along with scenes from the out-takes, readings from diaries kept by Ghetto residents, testimony from one of the camermen, and commentary from five Ghetto survivors as they watch the film.