Respite consists of silent black-and-white film shot at Westerbork, a Dutch refugee camp established in 1939 for Jews fleeing Germany. In 1942, after the occupation of Holland, its function was reversed by the Nazis and it became a 'transit camp.' In 1944, the camp commander commissioned a film, shot by a photographer, Rudolph Breslauer. “By exhuming the scattered fragments and traces of the phantom film (intertitle cards, ideas for the scenario, graphic elements), Harun Farocki inscribes the Dutch footage within the genre of the corporate film.
Harun Farocki
Director, Writer
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Sherman's March67%
Directed by John Ford70%
McQueen74%
The Class of ‘9271%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
180° South72%
My Mom Jayne80%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me84%
The Walking Dead: The Return73%
Harmontown66%
The Captains63%
Chronos75%
Das Versprechen61%
Maria by Callas73%
