Juonikuvaukset(1)
For seven years, Lukáš Přibyl researched and filmed Forgotten Transports, a series of four unique documentaries based on the recollections of Czech Jewish eyewitnesses deported to virtually unknown concentration camps and ghettos in Latvia, Estonia, Belarus and eastern Poland. The films have none of the grand narratives usually associated with movies about the Holocaust. Rather, they tell gripping stories without any commentary, through a montage of interviews with the handful of survivors - most describing what happened to them for the first time - and previously unseen photographs and film drawn from archives, the garages of former SS troops and a variety of other sources. Every detail is painstakingly documented with authentic visuals from the precise time and place. This approach is highly effective in bringing out the private perspectives and recollections of each individual, since the witnesses describe only about what they experienced themselves. Together, their limited points of view build into a surprising new picture of the Holocaust and different styles of survival. (jakelijan virallinen teksti)
(lisää)Arvostelut (1)
Unlike his other films in the Forgotten Transports series, here Lukáš Přibyl gives more space to the former Soviet party, i.e., the local Jews, whose position was somewhat more bearable due to their knowledge of the environment and connections outside the ghetto. He also describes the strong partisan movement in Belarus and the involvement of Czech Jews in it, and he can describe the extremely complex situation when completely contradictory groups participated in the resistance, whether in terms of political opinions or ethnicity. Once again, it is a very strong theme that makes one's blood run cold from the concluding testimony that out of 7,000 Czech Jews, only 22 returned alive. Overall impression: 80%.
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