SummaryIt is not widely known that a handful of prisoners in the Nazi death camps managed somehow to take clandestine photographs of the hell that was being hidden from the world. Director Christophe Cognet retraces the footsteps of these courageous men and women in a quest to unearth the circumstances and the stories behind their photographs.
Directed By:Christophe Cognet
Written By:Christophe Cognet
From Where They Stood
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Jul 14, 2022
70
His film can feel overly cerebral—a bit like being plunged into a seminar—and the text cards do a lot of explanatory heavy lifting. But Cognet’s forensic approach does insist on memorializing these events in an important, physically specific way and, intentionally or not, queasily anticipates a world without any living eyewitnesses to these horrors.
Jul 14, 2022
65
We can, thanks to movies like this one, continue to bear witness. But we will never truly know the reality he tries so hard to unearth, and that remains our burden to hold.
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Production Company:
- L'Atelier Documentaire
- OVALmedia
- Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
- SCAM
- Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- La Région Île-de-France
Release Date:Jul 15, 2022
Duration:1 h 55 m
Awards
Jerusalem Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille (FIDMarseille)
• 1 Nomination
Open City Docs Fest
• 1 Nomination
