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Respite
[BE THE FIRST TO RATE THIS MOVIE]Calorie Rating: 56
Released: 2007-04-01
Running Time: 40 Minutes
Studios: Harun Farocki Filmproduktion, Jeonju International Film Festival,
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.