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A still from From the depths survivors speak, occasionally combining their accounts
I call [Z głębokości wołam] with archival photographs from the ghetto. The wit-
directed by W. Gierłowski, nesses talk to the authors, recalling their memories of
2005, courtesy of Se-Ma-For
Produkcja Filmowa those traumatic events. It is generally sufficient. On the
other hand, one may get the impression that the film
lacks a form which would allow the survivor’s stories to
resound. After the first version of the film was screened,
the director Piotr Weychert announced that the new ver-
sion would differ from the first. ‘ At the last moment we
took the decision to make a film for the [70 ] anniver-
th
sary [of the liquidation of the ghetto]. Some say that the
first version will suffice, but we would like to put more
effort into the visual and sound form. We want to find
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The interview with Piotr Weychert the sounds of the ghetto and add some fragments from
is available on the website diaries. But all attempts at aesthetization may be out of
of Dziennik Łódzki: place in relation to the content’ .
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http://www.dziennkilo-
dzki.pl/artykul/650889,premiera- At this stage, it is difficult to say what shape Oddajcie
litzmannstadt-getto-1942,id,t.html mi swoje dzieci will take in its final version. Will the au-

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