The Witnesses (1961)

The Witnesses (1961)

Release Date: 1961, November 22
Directors: Frédéric Rossif
Countries: France
Production: Les Films de la Pléiade
Cast: Nadine Alari, Jean Perrot

Overview:

This film brings to life a vanished world: that of the Warsaw Ghetto, destroyed by the Nazis after the 1944 uprising. Two authentic "reconstruction" sources have been used to this end: photographic and cinematographic documents recorded at the time and discovered in Poland, East Germany, Israel and France; and the oral testimonies of 44 survivors, invited to evoke their personal tragedy in front of the images put before their eyes.