Black Pompeii

This documentary film is a requiem to the Jewish cemetery in Lodz, known before the war as one of the richest in funerary architecture in Europe. In this cemetery, massive in size, against the landscape of decay and ruin caused by time and neglect, the film shows four mourners carrying a coffin, and moving through the desolate landscape like restless sleepers unable to wake up from a nightmare. Since the film was shot, some attempts at restoration of the cemetery have been made after the political changes in Poland. The film is a record of an important monument to Jewish presence in the city of Lodz.