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Falkenau, the Impossible

Directed by Emil Weiss

Sam Fuller: White Dog

Directed by Christian Blackwood
  • Falkenau, the Impossible

    Directed by Emil Weiss.
    France, 1988, digital video, color and b&w, 62 min.
    French and English with English subtitles.
    Copy source: Academy Film Archive

French documentarian Emil Weiss returns with Fuller to the site of the Falkenau concentration camp in former Czechoslovakia, which Fuller had helped to liberate forty years earlier. Images from haunting footage shot by Fuller at the camps—his first motion pictures—are carefully interwoven into this powerful and understated film. 

  • Sam Fuller: White Dog

    Directed by Christian Blackwood.
    US, 1981, digital video, color, 20 min.

A riveting glimpse of Fuller at work on his controversial and later-suppressed masterpiece is provided in this short film by veteran documentary portraitist Christian Blackwood.

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