Respite
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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.
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Harun Farocki Director
First release April 1, 2007 · Produced in Germany, South Korea · Production Jeonju International Film Festival
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Harun Farocki Filmproduktion
Production
Jeonju International Film Festival
Production
Germany · South Korea
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Original title
Aufschub
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
South Korea · April 1, 2007
Theatrical
Germany · November 6, 2007
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Argentina
April 11, 2010 · Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
Poland
May 17, 2012 · Planete+ Doc Film Festival
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