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- 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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80Steven 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.
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70With 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.
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70The 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.
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50Steven Meyer's documentary treads a middle ground between illumination and cheap waterworks.