Photographer

Jewish Film, Holocaust
Dariusz Jablonski
56 minutes

Accolades

"A touching and exceptionally moving way of telling a story already told many times. Founded on thorough research, with a suggestive narrative structure and elegant use of well known means in film language, it captures the audience and evokes deep emotions." -PRIX EUROPA

Synopsis

In 1987, about 400 color slides photographed between 1939 and 1943 in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, surfaced in mint condition in Vienna. They were taken by the ghetto's top Nazi administrator: Walter Genewein. In PHOTOGRAPHER, Polish director Dariusz Jablonski juxtaposes the color slides with Genewein's detailed notes on the color quality of the slides and the ghetto's production figures, never reflecting on the human tragedy he is recording.

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