A Film Unfinished

A Film Unfinished
Directed by	Yael Hersonski
Produced by	Itai Ken-Tor Philippa Kowarsky Noemi Schory
Written by	Yael Hersonski
Narrated by	Rona Kenan
Music by	Yishai Adar
Cinematography	Itai Ne'eman
Edited by	Joel Alexis
Production company	Oscilloscope Pictures
Release dates	24 July 2010 (2010-07-24) (MIFF)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	Germany Israel
Language	English with subtitles for Hebrew, German and Polish
Box office	$311,542(USA)

A Film Unfinished (Hebrew title: שתיקת הארכיון Shtikat haArkhion, German title: Geheimsache Ghettofilm) is a 2010 documentary film by Yael Hersonski, which re-examines the making of an unfinished 1942 German propaganda film (titled Das Ghetto, "The Ghetto") depicting the Warsaw Ghetto two months before the mass extermination of its inhabitants in the German operation known as the Grossaktion Warsaw. The documentary features interviews with surviving ghetto residents and a re-enactment of testimony from Willy Wist, one of the camera operators who filmed scenes for Das Ghetto. It premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the "World Cinema Documentary Editing Award". At the Hot Docs festival in Toronto, the film won the Best International Feature award. The film was released theatrically in the US on 18 August 2010.

The film's distributor, Oscilloscope, appealed to the MPAA over the film's R rating, but were unsuccessful in reclassifying the film. Oscilloscope says the R rating is inconsistent with cultural norms because the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, which is visited by school children, has more graphic footage.

External links

• A Film Unfinished at IMDb
• A Film Unfinished at Rotten Tomatoes
• A Film Unfinished at Metacritic
• A film Unfinished at World War 2 Films
• A Film Unfinished site for Independent Lens on PBS
• A Film Unfinished official web site
• Das Ghetto the original German propaganda film