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From Where They Stood (2021)

From Where They Stood poster
Original title
À pas aveugles
Directed by
Christophe Cognet
Genre
documentary film, drama film
Country
Germany, France
Runtime
1h 50m
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A documentary that examines photographs secretly taken by prisoners in Nazi concentration camps. It explores how these images were created and smuggled out during World War Two.

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What happens

From Where They Stood, also known as À pas aveugles, is a 2021 Holocaust documentary by French documentarian Christophe Cognet that scrutinizes photographs taken clandestinely by prisoners at the Dachau, Auschwitz, Mittlelbau-Dora and Buchenwald Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The photographs were smuggled out of the camps and developed during the war or afterwards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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