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A still from From the depths mentation of the Holocaust grows weaker with time due
I call [Z głębokości wołam] to the mechanisms described by Hirsch. The form cho-
directed by W. Gierłowski, sen by Gierłowski and Podolska testifies to their aware-
2005, courtesy of Se-Ma-For
Produkcja Filmowa ness of the necessity to retrieve the meaning of these
pictures, which must be supported by a film narrative in
order to speak again. Z głębokości wołam combines
archival photographs from the ghetto with staged
scenes and verbal narration. Fragments of Sara
Zyskind’s autobiographic prose, Jehuda Lubiński’s Dzi-
ennik z Bałut [A Diary from Bałuty], Abram Koplowicz’s
memoirs and poems and Abram Cytryn’s poems are
read out by children. Instead of a classic voice-over, - an
impersonal voice of history, we hear a subjective ac-
count of the ghetto experience. It is supplemented with
contemporary staged scenes where young actors do not
so much play the role of Jewish children as lend their
bodies to them in order to strengthen the performative
power of the film as a medium between the testimony
of the archival pictures, memoirs and poems and the
present time.

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