As with World War II veterans, there will soon come a time when we will lose the last of the Holocaust survivors and the chance to hear their stories. That inalterable fact lends an undeniable urgency to Claire Ferguson's Destination Unknown, which revolves around interviews with 12 elderly survivors. The film's producer, Llion Roberts, filmed them over a 13-year period, and some have since passed away. So, yes, there have been countless Holocaust-themed documentaries released in recent years. But Destination Unknown represents a worthy addition to the canon if only for its historical importance.
The film interweaves the survivors' accounts...
The film interweaves the survivors' accounts...
- 11/9/2017
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Destination Unknown Seventh Art Releasing Director: Claire Ferguson Written by: Jonathan Key Cast: Cesia Mosberg, Ed Mosberg, Mietek Pemper and others Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 10/18/17 Opens: November 10, 2017 Amon Göth went beyond the call of duty but hardly in the way that we’d approve. As commandant of the Kraków-Plaszów concentration camp, Göth […]
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- 11/6/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
7 th Art Releasing has acquired and will release filmmaker Claire Ferguson's documentary Destination Unknown about survivors of the Holocaust. In their own words, the film traces the survivors’ journeys from the outbreak of war, through the misery of the ghettos, to the horrors of the concentration camps and how the survivors find light in the darkness as they survived the captivity and fear and began turning their lives around. 7th Art Releasing will release the film…...
- 8/23/2017
- Deadline
Author: Linda Marric
Baring witness to some of the most atrocious events in the history of humanity, 12 Holocaust survivors, mostly in their eighties and nineties, share some of their most harrowing experiences in Claire Ferguson’s hugely affecting documentary feature Destination Unknown. Using unique and intimate testimonies, the film manages to approach this delicate subject in the most respectful and truthful fashion by allowing only those who went through this ordeal to be heard. Ferguson attempts to retrace these brave survivors’ journeys from the outbreak of war, to the misery of the ghettos, all the way through to the unimaginable horrors of the death camps where millions of innocent people perished in the gas chambers or from starvation and disease.
Amongst the survivors being interviewed are those who lost every member of their families in the camps, and those who were lucky enough to be saved by Oskar Schindler, like Mietek Pemper,...
Baring witness to some of the most atrocious events in the history of humanity, 12 Holocaust survivors, mostly in their eighties and nineties, share some of their most harrowing experiences in Claire Ferguson’s hugely affecting documentary feature Destination Unknown. Using unique and intimate testimonies, the film manages to approach this delicate subject in the most respectful and truthful fashion by allowing only those who went through this ordeal to be heard. Ferguson attempts to retrace these brave survivors’ journeys from the outbreak of war, to the misery of the ghettos, all the way through to the unimaginable horrors of the death camps where millions of innocent people perished in the gas chambers or from starvation and disease.
Amongst the survivors being interviewed are those who lost every member of their families in the camps, and those who were lucky enough to be saved by Oskar Schindler, like Mietek Pemper,...
- 6/15/2017
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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