ID

FBW001226      Short documentary

Country / Year

Poland, 1963

Original Title

Requiem dla 500.000

Other Title(s)

Requiem für 500.000 (German)

Directed by

Jerzy Bossak, Waclaw Kazmierczak

Produced by

Wytwornia Filmow Dokumentalnych, Warschau

Staff

Music based on themes by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Narration: Jerzy Bossak

Length

28'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Abstract

A collage of photos of the Warsaw ghetto shot by Nazis. Several pictures of this film had been exposed at that time or were used in the educational training of SS and Gestapo. Ironically, some images were classified “too horrible” and were hidden in the archives of the Third Reich. The film shows the cynical idea of the Nazis, to film the suffering of the Jews. The baroque music accompanying the film should mourn the dead according to the filmmaker.

Subject Terms

1940-1949; Ghetto establishment; Jewish resistance; Poland; Warsaw; Warsaw (Ghetto); Warsaw ghetto uprising

Bibliography

- Skirball, Sheba F.: Films of the Holocaust. An Annotated Filmography of Collections in Israel. New York, NY: Garland, 1990