Umschlagplatz

Finland1987documentary48'Retrospektywa Jarmo Jääskeläinena (2022)

‘People did not believe it because who believes in such things’. Today, on the other hand, we are surprised that there was still hope in those people when they accepted three kilos of bread and marmalade, trusting that if someone who had been given such valuable provisions a moment earlier, they would not be killed. Archival photographs and, above all, a conversation with a witness and participant of those events, Marek Edelman, helps us to understand it. This remarkable and modest man patiently answers the director’s questions, reconstructing the image of a terrifying, borderland place, which no one wants to believe in.