“Imaginary Witness” Hollywood and the Holocaust
“Imaginary Witness” Hollywood and the Holocaust is a documentary directed by Daniel Anker that explore the treatment of the Holocaust in Hollywood film and how it dealt with the holocaust. The documentary starts with the 1920s talking about the lack for portrayal in Hollywood movies about the rising Nazi threat back and the uneasy relationship between the Hollywood studios, also to explore the history of the holocaust in Hollywood films. Moreover, there were some compelling portrayal of life under the Nazis and how it affected the Jews. It determinately split into two parts: how the Nazi Germany was presented on Hollywood screens before the war and how the Holocaust was depicted on Hollywood screen after the war. “Imaginary Witness” spends most of the time talking about the postwar transformation of the holocaust from something survivors never wanted to discuss. The film showed the interviews with Steven Spielberg, Sidney Lumet, and others. Daniel Anker’s fault Hollywood foregoing the holocaust during the war. The “Imaginary Witness,” Is a terrific
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The documentary was a powerful and difficult, and few will be able to make it through to the end without gasping, weeping or covering their eyes. Motion pictures on the film take us inside real people doing real things. “Imaginary Witness” is an excellent introduction into understanding how the holocaust story is told. It was a well-documented film with great interviews and original pictures to prove that cinema can be use for either wrong or right purpose. “Imaginary Witness” reminds us to be serious of the images we take in and emphasizes that the importance lies not only in bearing witness but how we do