PHOTOGRAPHER, Poland, 1998, 35mm, color/b&w, 76 min, Polish with English subtitles, Directed by Dariusz Jablonski.

In 1987, 400 color slides taken by Walter Genewein, the Nazis’s chief accountant for the Lodz Ghetto, were discovered in a second hand bookstore in Vienna. The photos of its inhabitants cast an innocuous light on the Ghetto but director Dariusz Jablonski’s film, which was six years in the making, paints a different picture. Heartbreaking eyewitness testimony from Ghetto doctor Arnold Mostowicz, interspersed with telling Nazi records and correspondence, create one of the most realistic and disturbing portraits of Ghetto life ever put on screen. You will never forget it.

Adolf Grimme Documentary Award 2000, Germany; Joris Ivens Documentary Award 1998, Amsterdam; Bavarian TV Award 1999; Golden FIPA Documentary and Essay Award 1999, Biarritz; DoubleTake Documentary Jury Award 1999.