Buried Prayers

Name: Buried Prayers
Genre: Documentary
Released: November 18, 2011
Rating: 61

2011

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Release Date: November 18, 2011

Summary: When facing even the most dire of situations, the strength of the human spirit prevails.

Director: Steven Meyer

Genre(s): Documentary

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Elizabeth Weitzman

Feb 11, 2012

Steven Meyer's deeply affecting documentary, narrated by Laurie Anderson, takes us back to a camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, Majdanek, in order to honor those who left everything behind. Read full review

Nick Schager

Feb 11, 2012

With the survivors' physical presence amongst Nazi slaughterhouses as its own powerful statement, Buried Prayers is a nonfiction work that confronts Holocaust atrocities from a piercing ground-level view. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

Feb 11, 2012

The film would be stronger if it told us a little more about what the survivors have been doing since the camp was liberated by the Soviets in 1944, but their reactions to revisiting the camp are wrenching to watch. Read full review

Andrew Schenker

Feb 11, 2012

Steven Meyer's documentary treads a middle ground between illumination and cheap waterworks.

Ronnie Scheib

Feb 11, 2012

Documentary's insistent inflation of buried gold jewelry and watches into symbols of heroic defiance and transcendental tragedy rings hollow in the wake of weightier Holocaust testimonials. Read full review

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