The Witnesses

The Witnesses

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 22, 1961

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

70%

Original Title

Le temps du ghetto

Production Companies

Les Films de la Pléiade

Director

Frédéric Rossif

Description

This film brings to life a vanished world: that of the Warsaw Ghetto, destroyed by the Nazis after the 1944 uprising. Two authentic "reconstruction" sources have been used to this end: photographic and cinematographic documents recorded at the time and discovered in Poland, East Germany, Israel and France; and the oral testimonies of 44 survivors, invited to evoke their personal tragedy in front of the images put before their eyes.