What is it about?
András Jeles’s Parallel Lives, a. k. a. Why Wasn’t He There? (Senkiföldje, 1993) is a full-length feature film, also containing archival footage, that addresses the individual and collective trauma of the Holocaust.
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Why is it important?
Whereas Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah (1985) focuses on the Endlösung, András Jeles turns the attention towards the antecedents. The film represents the process of disintegration of family and personality in genre episodes, through the perspective of an adolescent girl's diary which documents two years’ events from 1942 to 1944.
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This page is a summary of: Performing the Unspeakable. Intermedial Events in András Jeles’s Parallel Lives, Acta Universitatis Sapientiae Film and Media Studies, January 2015, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/ausfm-2015-0019.
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