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'A Film Unfinished' (Hebrew title: ' ' '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.[http://sundance.bside.com/2010/films/afilmunfinished_sundance2010 Sundance Film Festival 2010] entry, Retrieved 3 August 2010

The film's distributor, Oscilloscope, appealed to the MPAA over the film's R rating but was unsuccessful in reclassifying the film. Oscilloscope says that 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.[https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/08/03/a-holocaust-film-fights-an-unwanted-r-rating/ Should the Holocaust be Rated R?], Speakeasy, A Wall Street Journal Blog, August 3, 2010

Reception



On Rotten Tomatoes the documentary has an approval rating of 97% based on reviews from 65 critics. The site's consensus states "A heartbreaking, haunting historical document, A Film Unfinished excavates particularly horrible chapter of Holocaust history, and in doing so, the film provides a glimpse into the Nazi propaganda machine." On Metacritic it has a score of 88% based on reviews from 19 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".

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