At the end of WWII,
60 minutes of raw
film, having sat
undisturbed in an
East German archive,
was discovered.
Shot by the Nazis
in Warsaw in May
1942, and labeled
simply "Ghetto,"
this footage quickly
became a resource
for historians
seeking an authentic
record of the Warsaw
Ghetto. However, the
later discovery of a
long-missing reel
complicated earlier
readings of the
footage. A FILM
UNFINISHED presents
the raw footage in
its entirety,
carefully noting
fictionalized
sequences (including
a staged dinner
party) falsely
showing "the good
life" enjoyed by
Jewish urbanites,
and probes deep into
the making of a
now-infamous Nazi
propaganda film. A
FILM UNFINISHED is a
film of enormous
import, documenting
some of the worst
horrors of our time
and exposing the
efforts of its
perpetrators to
propel their agenda
and cast it in a
favorable light.