A Film Unfinished (2010)

This is a documentary cobbled together from actual footage taken for use in German propaganda films.

The pieces that showed life in the Warsaw Ghetto are amazing and horrifying, but the movie was simply not put together as effectively as it could have been -- and when you've got material this powerful, that's a true shame.

A diary device is introduced but then employed far too sparingly to have bothered (perhaps four or five "entries") and the timeline was out of order. Also, I'm sorry to say, The Pianist showed me the same world. Yes, I know that a cinematic production with actors is far different from raw footage with actual people -- but it took a bit of the shock out of these images to have seen it in any form previously.

C+