From Where They Stood

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From Where They Stood

2022

1h 55m

Documentary

History

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It is not widely known that a handful of prisoners in the Nazi death camps managed somehow to take clandestine photographs of the hell that was being hidden from the world. Director Christophe Cognet retraces the footsteps of these courageous men and women in a quest to unearth the circumstances and the stories behind their photographs.

Owen Gleiberman

Variety

08/05/2022

The movie, in its slightly academic way, is a meditation that heightens our perception.

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Elizabeth Weitzman

TheWrap

07/14/2022

We can, thanks to movies like this one, continue to bear witness. But we will never truly know the reality he tries so hard to unearth, and that remains our burden to hold.

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Nicolas Rapold

New York Times

07/14/2022

Cognet’s forensic approach [insists] on memorializing these events in an important, physically specific way and, intentionally or not, queasily anticipates a world without any living eyewitnesses to these horrors.

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Lee Zumpe

Tampa Bay Newspapers

10/26/2023

[The director] puts us in the shoes of those who were caged in these complexes, and connects us to that period far more effectively than we could be by faded images and grim statistics in a superficial sketch found in a high school history textbook.

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William Schwartz

Book & Film Globe

03/01/2023

From Where We Stood is among the most pretentious and pointless documentaries I have ever seen, and this isn’t a designation I put upon the movie lightly.

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Dan Schindel

Hyperallergic

09/16/2022

"From Where They Stood" makes a game attempt to grapple with the full weight of history that bears down on the most deceptively serene vistas.

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07/16/2022

The greatest 01 hour: and 55 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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It is not widely known that a handful of prisoners in the Nazi death camps managed somehow to take clandestine photographs of the hell that was being hidden from the world. Director Christophe Cognet retraces the footsteps of these courageous men and women in a quest to unearth the circumstances and the stories behind their photographs.

Director: Christophe Cognet
Producer: Raphaël Pillosio
Screenwriter: Christophe Cognet
Distributor: Greenwich Entertainment
Production Co: L'atelier documentaire, Oval Media
Genre: Documentary, History
Original Language: German
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 15, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 13, 2022
Runtime: 1h 55m