The New York Times by Andy Webster
Karski & the Lords of Humanity is fascinating, but Mr. Lanzmann’s efforts tower over it.
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Poland, Russia, United States · 2015
Rated NR · 1h 12m
Director Sławomir Grünberg
Starring Jan Karski
Genre Documentary
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This film details the life of Jan Karski. Karski, a member of the Polish underground, infiltrated the Warsaw Ghetto and carried his eyewitness reports of the atrocities to Britain and the United States to inform the Allied powers of Nazi crimes against the Jews of Europe in an effort to prevent the Holocaust.
The New York Times by Andy Webster
Karski & the Lords of Humanity is fascinating, but Mr. Lanzmann’s efforts tower over it.
Los Angeles Times by Charles Solomon
Although it is often moving, the film is less satisfying than it could be.
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
Gathering vintage interviews from a couple of different documentaries, the film movingly observes a man who can be physically unsettled by things he saw several decades prior.
Village Voice by Michael Nordine
In their abstraction, a number of striking animated sequences prove more effective in conveying these horrors than the talking-head segments that contextualize them.
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