Past Perfect
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“Past Perfect” is a spirited meditation on the elusiveness and inaccessibility of (Jewish) history as conveyed through sightseeing tours of “Jewish” Poland, a grandmother’s recollection of life in America during War II, and memoir-like “last moments” of a great aunt believed to have died in Treblinka. Shot almost entirely in contemporary Poland, “Past Perfect” lyrically portrays the relentless yet ultimately futile attempt to resuscitate a history literally gone up in smoke.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2002-04-09
Runtime: 38 mins
Director: Cynthia Madansky
Spoken language: English
Genres: Documentary
Original title: Past Perfect
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