Fresh
Imaginary Witness is powerful and complex, and few will manage to make it through to the end without gasping, weeping or covering their eyes.
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004 · 1h 32m
Documentary, History
Directed by
Daniel Anker
Overview
Daniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject: Hollywood’s complicated, often contradictory relationship with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. The questions it raises go right the very nature of how film functions in our culture, and while hardly exhaustive, Anker’s film makes for a good, thought provoking starting point.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Anker's film is an important one, shining a light on that red stain and how we saw it filtered through Hollywood's lens.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Fresh
Daniel Anker's film faults Hollywood both for ignoring the Holocaust during the war years and for trivializing it later. It's a mixed message that coheres largely thanks to Anker's archival spadework and his luck in securing interviews.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Fresh
Imaginary Witness works fine as an illustrated history, but the material could've supported something more probing and provocative.
Noel Murray, AV Club
Fresh
Anker's excavated some remarkable stuff here...
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice
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