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The boy, nine or ten years old, wearing a school cap on protruding ears , With big eyes he seems to watch over us from a distant past eighty years. Three youths – so called this intermediate age then – in tight suits sit smoking around a table. A laughing family, a gentleman with a hat and Menjoubärtchen. Magic Pictures. They show Todgeweihte who guessed nothing of their fate. Ghosts of history. On later recordings people smile more, but you can already sense the effort. Young men on a staircase, all wearing armbands with the Star of David. Since the ghetto was already invaded the Wehrmacht, set up.
Almost all Jews died in Treblinka
The documentary “Half the city” of the Warsaw director Pawel Siczek tells the story of the Jews of Kozienice. The eastern Polish town is picturesquely situated on the Vistula River, “in 4000 Poland,” it says in the film, “6,000 Jews arrived”. On the streets in Polish, Yiddish, German, and Russian was spoken – today one hears only Polish. Almost all Jewish residents were deported from the German conquerors to Treblinka and murdered
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All that remains merely their pictures, nearly 10 000 portraits on glass negatives, the war and its aftermath are survived by a miracle. They come from Chaim Berman, who ran the only photo studio in the city. After Berman and his family were interned into forced labor, saved his owner the negatives from his last studio, a wet basement, by having them brought to his attic.
In “Half of the city” are constantly people in search. A young photographer couple strives Kozienice to photograph as it must have looked before 1939th They want to reconstruct the city of Chaim Berman, refer to the onion dome church, delicately colored stucco houses, their small orchards and vegetable gardens. But always missing something, no photo can close the old wounds. A nephew of Chaim Berman has come from New York to Kozienice, to find traces of his family. “Do you remember the faces of your relatives?” He asked. “Vaguely,” he replies. “I played with my cousin ball, but since I was only seven.”
theme of the film is the emptiness
Most is the film, which was produced by a company in Munich if he shows Berman images, thereby completely relies on its power and mystery. Some photographs show the cracks and splinters of glass negatives, others have become stained by mold. Brittle memories. After the occupation of the city in September 1939, the photographer portrays German soldiers. In the film, the images of men associated with the swastika on their uniforms in addition to the photos of Polish soldiers, peacefully united on clotheslines
Pawel Siczek faced the challenge that most Jews of Kozienice -. Chaim Berman, his wife and her two sons – have left nothing, not even a grave. This “black hole”, the director tries to fill with animated sequences. Make catches by stages in the life of the Berman family. Used it did not have the oriented Marc Chagall dreamy imagery animations. Because the disturbing thing about this film, and this theme is the emptiness.
in Berlin in the following cinemas: Sputnik; OmU in Filmrauschpalast, Hackesche Höfe and Crocodile
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