A documentary not quite finished

A Film Unfinished (2010)

This documentary uncovers a piece of propaganda some historians have considered as true representation of the situation before. It's a film about the Warsaw Ghetto which the Nazi propaganda machine doctored to show the "cruel" nature of Jews. The "documentary" film is uncovered with new evidence of a reel with outtakes and alternate scenes which show that the whole film was set up the way the SS officers wanted. There's also excerpts of a diary that survived from the ghetto which describes the filming, there's interviews with survivors from the ghetto and even from an actual cameraman who shot pieces of the film. For anyone interested in history of propaganda this is surely a must see documentary. For everyone else it's a thought provoking depiction of the horrors of the ghetto. The subject matter is of course important and quite shocking, but this documentary has it's flaws. The thing is that it's a bit boring. I mean it's facinating and shocking for sure, but even though it's quite short all those slow motion shots seemed to drag it on a bit too much. With a better pacing this would have been a brilliant documentary as the subject matter is surely worth seeing.
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