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Directed by Dariusz Jablonski Edited by Milenia Fiedler Director Dariusz Jabłoński Producer Dariusz Jabłoński | 7.1/10 Filmweb Produced by Dariusz Jablonski Cinematography Tomasz Michałowski Initial release May 1998 Music director Michał Lorenc | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Andrzej BodekDariusz Jablonski Screenplay Dariusz Jabłoński, Arnold Mostowicz, Michał Szczepański, Andrzej Brodek Cast Arnold Mostowicz, Artur Brauner, Szymon Szurmiej, Norbert Langer, Peter Matic Similar Movies about the Holocaust, Documentaries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fotoamator (internationally released as Photographer ) is a 1998 Polish documentary film directed by Dariusz Jablonski, examining the life of the Jewish population and their Nazi overseers in the Łódź Ghetto.
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Fotoamator photographer 1 of 2 a story about lodz ghetto
Subject
In 1987, several hundred color slides documenting scenes from the Łódź Ghetto during World War II were discovered in a second-hand bookstore in Vienna, Austria. These slides were the work of Walter Genewein, an Austrian citizen serving the Nazis. Being an accountant in the ghetto's council, he solicited for turning the ghetto into a prosperous and well-organised company, and since he was not just an ambitious office worker, but also an enthusiastic photographer, he recorded their "achievements" with a camera.
Genewein's slides are used by the authors to show—both through them and, to some extent, in spite of them—the real history of the Łódź Ghetto and the suffering and eventual extermination of the Polish Jews living there. The photographs are combined and compared with the recollections of Dr. Arnold Mostowicz, who worked as a doctor in the ghetto, and the last surviving witness of the events.