From Where They Stood (2021) on Netflix
NR20211h 55mDocumentaryDramaHistory
In camps like Dachau, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora, prisoners risked their lives to photograph what the Nazis hid. In the remains of those sites, each picture's setting is traced.
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A handful of prisoners in WWII camps risked their lives to take clandestine photographs and document the hell the Nazis were hiding from the world. In the vestiges of the camps, 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, composing as such an archeology of images as acts of defiance.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about From Where They Stood (2021)
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- The clandestine photographs the film examines were taken by prisoners themselves, among them Rudolf Cisar at Dachau, Georges Angeli at Buchenwald and Alberto Errera at Auschwitz; some of the photographers and their subjects belonged to resistance movements inside the camps.
- Instead of relying on survivor testimony like other Holocaust documentaries, director Christophe Cognet took an investigative approach, scrutinizing each photograph closely to work out exactly where it had been taken.
- The prisoner photographs at the heart of the film were smuggled out of the Nazi concentration camps and developed either during the war or afterwards.
