Dariusz Jablonski

In 1987, several hundred color slides documenting scenes from the Łódź Ghetto during World War II were discovered in a second-hand bookstore in Vienna, Austria. These slides were the work of Walter Genewein, an Austrian citizen serving the Nazis. Being an accountant in the ghetto's council, he solicited for turning the ghetto into a prosperous and well-organised company, and since he was not just an ambitious office worker, but also an enthusiastic photographer, he recorded their "achievements" with a camera (fonte: Wikipedia)… (más)

En 1987, on découvre par hasard dans un magasin viennois des diapositives en couleurs datant de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Ces photos, témoignage unique, ont été prises en Pologne dans le ghetto de Lodz par le chef comptable allemand Walter Genewein, photographe amateur. Au monde coloré des diapositives, sous l'apparence heureuse d'une vie tranquille et d'enfants souriants, s'opposent le terrible récit d'Arnold Mostowicz, qui fut médecin dans le ghetto, mais aussi les rapports officiels, les extraits de livres de comptes de Genewein ou encore sa correspondance technique avec Agfa, le fabricant de pellicule. Par une reconstitution minutieuse et un regard inédit sur la shoah, Dariusz Jablonski signe avec Fotoamator un film bouleversant. (fonte: amazon.fr)… (más)

NO OF PAGES: 0 SUB CAT I: Holocaust SUB CAT II: SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: Awards: Adolf Grimme Awards, Germany: Adolf Grimme Award for Documentary/Cultural
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival: Joris Ivens Award
Banff Television Festival: Banff Rockie Award for Best History and Biography Program
Bavarian TV Awards: Bavarian TV Award
Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming: Golden FIPA for Documentary and Essay
DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival: Jury Award. In 1987, 400 color slides were found at a second-hand bookstore in Vienna. But these were no ordinary pictures. They turned out to be photographs taken in the Lodz Ghetto by Walter Genewein, the Nazi's chief accountant for the notorious slave labor camp for Jews. Nondescript bureaucrat Genewein was good at increasing productivity and controlling costs, obliviouos to the unspeakable suffering caused by his actions. And he cold-bloodedly photographed--using ioneering color film-the devastation wrought upon more than 300,000 Jews in the Ghetto. By the end of the war, only 15,000 had survived.NOTES: Purchased from the Amazon Marketplace. SUBTITLE: He Shot the Holocaust in Living Color… (más)