Eyewitness (1999 film)

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Eyewitness
Directed by Bert Van Bork
Distributed by Seventh Art Releasing
Release date
  • 1999 (1999)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Eyewitness is a 1999 American short documentary film directed by Bert Van Bork. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. [1] The explored the lives of three artists forced to work in secret while living in Nazi death camps: Jan Komski, Dinah Gottliebova and Felix Nussbaum, and who witnessed and painted the horrors of the Holocaust. [2]

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References

  1. "NY Times: Eyewitness". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . 2012. Archived from the original on October 16, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2008.
  2. "Eyewitness". Seventh Art Releasing. Retrieved March 7, 2012.