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Three Days In Auschwitz (2015) is a English movie. Philippe Mora has directed this movie. Mirka Mora,Philippe Mora are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2015. Three Days In Auschwitz (2015) is considered one of the best Documentary,History movie in India and around the world.
In 2010 I visited Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps for the first time and filmed the visit. I knew many of my relatives had been killed there. Incredibly, that year I also found over 250 documents from Poland and Leipzig, documenting the fate of seven Morawski family members. In 2012, I revisited the camps again with my friend Harald Grosskopf, with whom I had made the documentary German Sons. The two visits triggered an ongoing personal investigation into the matrix of Holocaust Restitution, with the Morawskis, my murdered family, as a portal into the shocking world of Nazi barbarism and looting. With billions of dollars unaccounted for, for millions of victims and heirs, the issue remains an open wound, the legacy of unprecedented crimes against humanity. This film documents this odyssey into the heart of evil, past and present.
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Three Days In Auschwitz (2015) Reviews
Lightweight Holocaust memorial
More than a million Jews were killed by the Nazis at the Auschwitz concentration camps. Directed by the veteran French-Australian filmmaker and artist Philippe Mora, this brief documentary focuses on the second of these camps, at Birkenau. Eight of Mora's family were victims of Hitler's regime, so it's clearly a deeply personal journey. Unfortunately this attachment doesn't translate into a compelling documentary. Of course this episode in history "must not be forgotten", and any record of the horrors of the Third Reich are inherently valuable. But essentially what we get is a 50-minute home video about a man visiting a series of museums (chief amongst which is Birkenau itself). To be fair to Mora, he states that the film is for his grandchildren. For the rest of us, we are offered little background or insight that couldn't be garnered from Wikipedia. Interviews with Mora's mother are amiable but lack depth. At under an hour, is there really room for a digression about the celebrities that showed up at Mirka's wedding? I can understand the desire to create an accessible entryway into the subject – Claude Lanzmann's seminal documentary Shoah is nearly ten hours long, after all – but brevity needn't mean shallowness. We are told various anecdotes – including an enlightening one about Mora's youthful interview with Albert Speer, Hitler's chief architect – but actually shown very little beyond repetitious shots of tourists observing ruins. At one point we're told of how the British liberated the camps and immediately filmed what they found. We get glimpses of this footage, but it's filmed second-hand, from the screen of a monitor, complete with distracting light reflections. There's an ongoing motif of trains, both of the period and in modern times, which is a potentially interesting juxtaposition about the locomotive's different meaning to different generations. Yet like everything else, it's just there, never explored. To compound the frustration, Mora uses an aggravating fish-eye lens throughout, needlessly distorting the picture. The images are married to a score by Eric Clapton, which eschews Ligeti-style horror to focus on the tragedy, and ends up sounding sickly and sentimental. One of the questions Mora keeps asking is, 'How is it possible to make a film about Auschwitz?' His lightweight documentary provides previous little evidence that it is.
I have seen home videos that were better
First, how egotistical for the filmmaker to not only offer a review, but to question a review of a viewer! If you put stuff out there, expect people to have opinions, and the mere fact he chose to 10 star this movie and call out a reviewer leads me to believe the movie actually would score much lower by viewers and have more reviews if it weren't for the brashness of Phillipe Mora. As viewers there is no depth to this at all, and with a description discussing the looting, and reparations he could have at least mentioned that in his movie, especially if advertises that that is what the movie is about. In the end, the movie tends to be one man's ranting about not much and a show f his Hitler obsession.
A Dud
Yes. I certainly do agree that the horrors which regularly occurred at Auschwitz during WW2 were, indeed, undeniably monstrous. It was, literally, inhumanity beyond comprehension. But, with that said - I seriously think that director, Philippe Mora should have rethought his approach to making this personalized documentary presentation before he completed it. What was intended to be looked upon as being "Three Days in Auschwitz" ended up seeming more like 3 endless years of a personal reminiscence from an incoherent hell. This 55-minute production's story could've easily been told in about 15 minutes, tops. And, Eric Clapton's "out-of-sync" twangy-guitar soundtrack did absolutely nothing to liven up this mighty grim reminder one bit.
Masterful and original approach by Mora and Clapton
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DIRECTOR PHILIPPE MORA AND MUSIC LEGEND ERIC CLAPTON CREATE A MASTERPIECE TOGETHER. This is a Masterful and Original approach to a sensitive subject. Mora is a creative film genius. "THREE DAYS IN AUSCHWITZ' takes a personal approach to the topic of the Holocaust. It is a heartfelt film that will touch your emotions. The collaboration of friends Director Mora and Music Legend Clapton, is a great opus that will find a permanent place of honor in film history. Visiting Auschwitz in three days, Director Mora weaves decades of world and personal history together. The viewer is gently swept along on his poignant odyssey.