An Unfinished Film - Summary

This film was created for a purpose that no one knows. It has no audio, just footage from inside the Warsaw Ghetto, filmed by the Nazis. From what we know about it, it was a propaganda video. It made me feel sick watching how they treated them during the video. The Nazis wanted to show the comparison of the high class Jews inside the Ghetto that could afford to go to nice dinners, have a wonderful wedding, even extravagant funeral possessions. On the side of the video, they get the beggars, starved, and poor. They capture little kids begging in the streets for food, money, water, ect. In the video, it showed how they staged each scene and even showed the multiple times they had to redo them to get the perfect shot. Sometimes, you would be able to catch an SS officer, and one was identified, Willy Wist. He was tracked down and asked to do an interview for the video. One of the hardest parts of watching A Film Unfinished would most likely be seeing the survivors come back and watch the footage for the first time. Some of them were able to identify family, neighbors, and close friends. Not knowing if any of them survived the whole thing would absolutely kill me on the inside. The film makers also captured how the other Jews would get rid of the corpses on the side of the roads. When someone in a family would pass, from either starvation or a disease, the family would lay them on the side of the road, in hopes someone would come pick up their bodies. Once someone would come to pick up the bodies, they would be taken to a massive grave and laid there. They would all get buried there together. It broke my heart seeing how the Jews were treated, especially the young ones who had no idea what their future was going to be. They had no idea. The older generation knew what was happening and did not want to make it easy for the Nazis.