From Where They Stood
“The Stories Behind Clandestine Prisoner Photography from the Nazi Death Camps”
2023•1h 50m•7.5•Released
Documentary
A handful of prisoners in WWII camps risked their lives to take clandestine photographs and document the hell the Nazis were hiding from the world. In the vestiges of the camps, director Christophe Cognet retraces the footsteps of these courageous men and women in a quest to unearth the circumstances and the stories behind their photographs, composing as such an archeology of images as acts of defiance.
Director
Christophe Cognet
Writer
Christophe Cognet
Languages
German, French, Polish
Studio
l’atelier documentaire
Cast
Tal Bruttmann
Christophe Cognet
Corinne Halter
Production
Company
l’atelier documentaire
Producer
Raphaël Pillosio
Recommended
8.2
Shoah
1985
7.6
Night Will Fall
2014
8.1
The Salt of the Earth
2014
7.7
Nazi Concentration Camps
1945
6.8
Misha and the Wolves
2021
7
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
1999
7.7
The Beaches of Agnès
2008
7.3
The Walking Dead: The Return
2024
7
News from Home
1977
6.8
Standard Operating Procedure
2008
7.4
The Last Days
1998
6.6
The Weather Underground
2002
7.7
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
7.1
The Class of ‘92
2013
7.2
To Be Takei
2014
8
My Mom Jayne
2025
8.1
Earthlings
2005
7
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
2013
7.3
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
8.2
For Sama
2019
Similar Movies
The Holocaust. Certified crime
2021
9
The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton
2003
7
Shot in the Dark
2017
6.6
Adolf Island
2019
7
Paris in the Belle Epoque
2019
Ukraine: Holocaust Ground Zero
2023
Regarding Our Father
2011
3.6
Everything at Once (Paco & Manolo's Gaze)
2021
8.4
Riverboom
2024
10
Hitler's Forgotten Victims
1997
Modus Operandi
2008
Comprehensive School
1962
10
Status and Terrain
2019
10
Besa: The Promise
2012
8.7
32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide
2017
5
Resistance: They Fought Back
2024
10
In These Pages
0
8
Łódź Ghetto
1989
7.7
The Liberation of Auschwitz
1986
9
Wall of Silence
1994