Indie Spotlight- Three Days In Auschwitz

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Three Days In Auschwitz (2015) (English Language)

55min

Genre:      Documentary

Director:   Philippe Mora

Cast:        Philippe Mora, Mirka Mora

Country:   USA | Australia | Germany | Poland

-Synopsis-

In an effort to come to terms with the devastating personal effects of the Holocaust on his family, artist and filmmaker Philippe Mora chronicles his trips to Auschwitz concentration camp and weaves together a stylish personal portrait of the ongoing legacy of the Third Reich’s atrocities in 1940s Europe.

There is certainly no shortage of compelling documentaries about the many atrocities committed by the Nazis in today’s media, just turn on your TV during the day in most Western countries and you’re bound to see one. But with ‘Three Days In Auschwitz’, Philippe Mora opens the door to the lingering legacy of the Holocaust from a very personal point of view and through the experiences of his quite fascinating family.

Franco-Aussie director/painter Mora shows us his family’s own perspective of the Holocaust experience, in particular through his parents. From his French resistance fighter and entrepreneur father, and through the words of his celebrated artist mother Mirka Mora, who miraculously escaped her horrific Polish fate by one day.

‘Three Days In Auschwitz’ is co-produced and scored by Mora’s old friend and rock/blues legend Eric Clapton; whose arrangements and unmistakable dulcet guitar tones vary from the uplifting to the sombre, but always tinged with a bittersweet and melancholic quality.

Mora combines location handheld moving camera shots, interviews, artistic shots and quotes from historical documents to both inform and warn the audience about the horrors of the Holocaust, but it’s clear that ‘Three Days In Auschwitz’ is a personal piece of cinematic therapy to try and make sense of the events that shaped his life, and get some sort of closure.

By his own admission, ‘Three Days In Auschwitz’ like anything about the Holocaust was a difficult film for Philippe Mora to conceive, and like he says himself it’s more like a series of “cinematic notes for a movie about Auschwitz“. But like any film on the subject, it bears much needed witness to the atrocities of the time and warns of the dark part of human nature that’s present in all of us.

It’s depressing to think that the Western world has largely forgotten, or were never aware of the genocides and atrocities that occurred after the Holocaust in Africa, Southeast Asia and beyond. Who in the media will bear consistent witness to them?, lest they continue to happen.

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