Why Did the Nazis Film the Dying Jews of Warsaw?

“A Film Unfinished,” which the MPAA has given an R rating, investigates a mysterious Nazi movie production, a 30-day shoot inside the Warsaw Ghetto shortly before it was liquidated in 1942.

TEL AVIV – In a French-themed café a block from the teeming beach, producer Noemi Schory explained why her new Holocaust documentary, “A Film Unfinished,” did not deserve the R rating that the MPAA handed down last week after a final appeal.

Yes, she said, the film has shocking images: corpses on the streets of the Warsaw Ghetto, starving children, a mass grave. And some nudity: naked men, and then women, entering a ritual bath.

It is a harsh film, even a brutal one. But it is also an historical document that until now has been unseen by the public, and whose purpose remains a mystery.

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