# Fotoamator

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{{Infobox film
| name           = Fotoamator
| image          = Fotoamator.jpg

| caption        = International poster
| director       = [Dariusz Jablonski](/source/Dariusz_Jab%C5%82o%C5%84ski_(director))
| writer         = Andrzej Bodek<br>Dariusz Jablonski
| producer       = Dariusz Jablonski
| starring       = 
| narrator       = 
| cinematography = Tomasz Michałowski
| editing        = Milenia Fiedler
| music          = [Michał Lorenc](/source/Micha%C5%82_Lorenc)
| distributor    = 
| released       = {{Film date|1998}}
| runtime        = 52 minutes
| country        = [Poland](/source/Poland)
| language       = [Polish](/source/Polish_language)<br>[German](/source/German_language)<br>[French](/source/French_language)<br>[English](/source/English_language)
| budget         =  
}}
'''''Fotoamator''''' (internationally released as '''''Photographer''''' ) is a 1998 [Polish](/source/Poland) [documentary film](/source/documentary_film) directed by [Dariusz Jablonski](/source/Dariusz_Jab%C5%82o%C5%84ski_(director)), examining the life of the Jewish population and their Nazi overseers in the [Łódź Ghetto](/source/Ghetto_Litzmannstadt).

==Subject==
In 1987, several hundred [color slides](/source/Reversal_film) documenting scenes from the Łódź Ghetto during [World War II](/source/World_War_II) were discovered in a second-hand bookstore in [Vienna](/source/Vienna), [Austria](/source/Austria). These slides were the work of Walter Genewein, an Austrian citizen serving the [Nazis](/source/Nazi_Germany). Being an accountant in the ghetto's council, he solicited for turning the ghetto into a prosperous and well-organised company, and since he was not just an ambitious office worker, but also an enthusiastic photographer, he recorded their "achievements" with a camera.

Genewein's slides are used by the authors to show—both through them and, to some extent, in spite of them—the real history of the Łódź Ghetto and the suffering and eventual extermination of the Polish Jews living there. The photographs are combined and compared with the recollections of Dr. Arnold Mostowicz, who worked as a doctor in the ghetto, and the last surviving witness of the events.<ref>Dariusz Jabłoński, ''Fotoamator'' (1998)</ref>

== Awards ==
* [Adolf Grimme Awards](/source/Adolf_Grimme_Awards) 2000 – Documentary/Cultural
* Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 1999 – Joris Ivens Award
* Banff Television Festival 1999 – Banff Rockie Award
* Bavarian TV Award 1999
* Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming 1999 – Golden FIPA & Prix Planète
* Cracow Film Festival 1998 – Don Quixote Award
* DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival1998 – Jury Award<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0188996/awards Internet Movie Database]</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1AG_Amm7nU Fotoamator]'' full film available on YouTube
*{{IMDb title|id=0188996|title=Fotoamator}}
* ''[http://www.culture.pl/web/english/resources-film-full-page/-/eo_event_asset_publisher/eAN5/content/fotoamator-photographer Fotoamator]'' discussed on www.culture.pl

Category:1998 films
Category:Documentary films about the Holocaust
Category:Polish documentary films
Category:1998 documentary films
Category:Łódź Ghetto
Category:Documentary films about Poland in World War II
Category:Films scored by Michał Lorenc
Category:1990s Polish-language films
Category:1998 German-language films
Category:1998 Polish films

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