Eyewitness
MovieTitle | Eyewitness |
User score | 5 |
Release date | Jan 1, 1999 |
Genre | Documentary, War |
Director | Bert Van Bork |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Seventh Art Releasing |
Run time | 39 min. |
Eyewitness is a 1999 American short documentary film directed by Bert Van Bork. The film explores 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 all witnessed and painted the horrors of the Holocaust. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.