I weep easily, but this film in Hebrew is just hard to describe. Half a century in half an hour. Lodz, Frankfurt, Auschwitz, Arkhangelsk, Samarkand, Tel Aviv, Rego Park, Paris, Sinai. This film is a heartbreaking masterpiece. The fatal story of the family discovered with the detective precision based on the photos found in a garbage container in the Florentine neighborhood of Tel Aviv. The film is strikingly minimalist, yet hauntingly beautiful. The dramatic suspense of the biblical fate punctuating one family, one of many. The unsettling proximity of the tragic century (the video is slow to load but well worth it, pay no attention to the opening commercials): Ynet – תעלומה במכולה הירוקה
Further Reading:
The Only Film Image of Anne Frank
A Serious Man, the Film by and about Coen Brothers
The Romanov Family Albums at Beinecke Library
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