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Bookmark this pageImaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004)
Director: Daniel Anker
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From Time Out New York
Though it feels a touch small-screen (it was originally made for AMC), this solid, clip-heavy history of Hollywood’s narrative efforts pushes past sobriety to arrive at some tough ideas, particularly the Wiesel-worthy notion that representing evil poorly may, in itself, be disrespectful. All the big scenes are here, from Rod Steiger’s silent scream in The Pawnbroker to Spielberg’s inevitable little girl in the red dress. More stunning is footage from a syrupy 1953 episode of This Is Your Life with an Auschwitz survivor, or scenes from the glib 1978 miniseries Holocaust, greenlit in the wake of Roots.Author: Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York Time Out New York, Issue 637–638, December 13–26, 2007
Cast & crew
Director: Daniel Anker
With: Tom Brokaw, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Sidney Lumet, Liam Neeson, Steven Spielberg, Rod Steiger
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 92 mins
US Release: May 6 2006
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