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Ya can’t keep a good Beastie down.
It was recently announced that Adam “MCA” Yauch of the Beastie Boys purchased the rights to the movie, “A Film Unfinished.”
The documentary by Israeli director Yael Hersonski tells the story of a 62-minute propaganda film, created by the Nazis, of the Warsaw Ghetto only months before it was evacuated in 1942.
Mr. Hersonski’s documentary opened to acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival last January.
“It’s an incredibly powerful film,” Mr. Yauch told the Hollywood Reporter, “not just because of the rare Nazi propaganda footage it shows, but also the captivating way the filmmakers tell the story.”
The documentary shows the entire Nazi propaganda film, including a staged ball at the ghetto. Mr. Hersonski also offers narratives from witnesses and testimonies from participants in the film who are no longer living.
Mr. Yauch’s independent film distribution company, Oscilloscope Laboratories, will release “A Film Unfinished” Aug. 18 at New York’s Film Forum before distributing it to theaters across the country.