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The Museum and the Fury

1956 · 56 min

A solemn, essayistic meditation on remembrance that asks you to sit with difficult archival images and reflect.

Overview
From the perspective of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, documentary material, amongst this the freeing of the camp and the Nuremberg Trials with clips from films which were produced shortly after the war, and pictures of museum visitors are assembled into an essay about memory.
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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • memory
    • death
    • war
    • violence
    • justice
    Places
    None
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    • true story
    Content intensity
    • Gore mild
    • Language none
    • Violence mild
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror4
    Humour0
    Realism10
    Romance0
    Tension4
    Darkness8
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight9

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    Details

    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Peggy Lawson, Leo Hurwitz
    Written by
    Leo Hurwitz, Tom McGrath
    Starring
    Josephine Kirk
    Runtime
    56 min
    Country
    United States of America
    Languages
    English

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