This is a very touching little film, but when it was finished I sure felt like there should have been a lot more--perhaps more from the older gentleman or perhaps stories from other people about the holocaust and perhaps about how a joke (or something similar) saved their life or helped them cope.
The film is less like a traditional short and more like a home movie as a patriarch tells of his life in Birkenau prison camp (part of Auschwitz). Throughout his story, pictures, drawings and music are used to provide a professional touch to his story about how he was saved by Dr. Melgele due, of all things, to his inability to tell a good joke.
Short, interesting but maddeningly short.
The film is less like a traditional short and more like a home movie as a patriarch tells of his life in Birkenau prison camp (part of Auschwitz). Throughout his story, pictures, drawings and music are used to provide a professional touch to his story about how he was saved by Dr. Melgele due, of all things, to his inability to tell a good joke.
Short, interesting but maddeningly short.