The Photgrapher: Storyville BBC4 @ 22:00 tonight

Robert AThreads: 2 Posts: 228 Joined: Jul 29, 08 ♂	Sep 20, 10, 18:50 #1
For those of you who may be interested . . . The Photographer "Dariusz Jablonski's film tells the story behind a collection of slides takin in Lodz in Poland by the Nazi's chief accountant, Walter Genewein . . ."

SeanBMThreads: 41 Posts: 8,727 Joined: Mar 10, 08 ♂	Sep 20, 10, 20:58 #2
I found it on youtube, I will have a watch, thanks for the tip RobertA. Fotoamator / Photographer - 1 of 2 A story about Lodz Ghetto.

Robert AThreads: 2 Posts: 228 Joined: Jul 29, 08 ♂	Sep 20, 10, 23:06 #3
Watching it now. How ya doin' Sean?

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Sep 20, 10, 23:16 #4

Robert A:

Watching it now.

Is it the same as the one on youtube? I thought the youtube one was cut a bit short.

I also thought it would be more about photography, it is really an interview.

It was a terrible time, makes me think of the slave labour that still exists today in the world.

Robert A:

How ya doin' Sean?

I'm fine, busy so all's well.

I would like to see more of such documentaries on these forums.
Not necessarily about WWII but about Poland in general (in English).

I like documentaries.

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Edited by: zetigrek Sep 20, 10, 23:53 #5

SeanBM:

I would like to see more of such documentaries on these forums.
Not necessarily about WWII but about Poland in general (in English).

I like documentaries.

Search for this doc somewhere:

It used to be full on YT but now I can't find it
It's very similar to The Photographer. It's about a guy who was a photographer either and he was making mugshots in Auschwitz. That made him eyewitness of horrible crimes made by Nazis (he had to take pictures of "medical" experiments effects on humans etc).
I've already seen it and it's very deep movie. Further infos here.

I also recommend a documentary which unfortunately I haven't seen full but it seemed to be very intresting: A Cupboard (Kredens). Its about a film school student from Netherlands (or Denmark - I don't remember) whose parents and grandparents were Jewish and emigrated from Poland in early 60s leaving in house they had been living for generations a cupboard. This young man decides to set his own investigation on the family keepsake and find it.

About modern Poland:

(a teaser)
It's a document about polish squatters. It was broadcasted on bbc so there is certainly an English version made.

SeanBMThreads: 41 Posts: 8,727 Joined: Mar 10, 08 ♂	Sep 21, 10, 18:12 #6
Thanks zetigrek, I will have a look when I get the chance. There should probably be a thread about Polish related documentaries. I think many people who come on to a site like this, about Poland, would like such a thing, know I would.

1jolaThreads: 33 Posts: 2,737 Joined: Sep 23, 08 ♂	Edited by: 1jola Sep 21, 10, 18:58 #7
A good documentary about a daring escape from Auschwitz: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8833004586259980268# Some background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz_Piechowski

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Sep 21, 10, 23:23 #8

SeanBM:

I like documentaries.

Me too!

SeanBM:

I also thought it would be more about photography, it is really an interview.

Esentially, it is about photography - the discovery of those photographs was the foundation of the programme. I remember at one point, Genewein wrote a letter of complaint to AGFA about the quality of film he had processed. It was also about Jablonski's recollection of events in the Lodz ghetto versus Genewein's photographic depiction of those same events. "The camera never lies". . . true, but what it recods may well be a lie.

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