The Look of Silence vs The Tattooist's Son: Journey to Auschwitz
The Tattooist's Son: Journey to Auschwitz has the higher audience score (8/10 against 7.8/10 for The Look of Silence). The Tattooist's Son: Journey to Auschwitz is the shorter watch at 1h 10m compared with 1h 40m. The Look of Silence is the older of the two (2014 against 2025). Both are documentary, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
The Look of Silence
The Tattooist's Son: Journey to Auschwitz| The Look of Silence | The Tattooist's Son: Journey to Auschwitz | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.8/10 | ★ 8.0/10 |
| Year | 2014 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 40m | 1h 10m |
| Genres | Documentary, History | Documentary, History |
| Country | – | United Kingdom |
| Director | Joshua Oppenheimer | Stephen Bennett |
| Main cast | Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Inong, Kemat | Jonah Hauer-King, Heather Morris, Anna Próchniak, Gary Sokolov, George Halasz |
Synopsis
The Look of Silence
An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother was exterminated.
The Tattooist's Son: Journey to Auschwitz
Filmed in Melbourne, Slovakia, and Poland, this poignant and intimate one-off documentary will follow Gary Sokolov, the only son of Gita and Lali Sokolov (one of the real-life tattooists of Auschwitz). Their incredible love story began when they met and fell in love as Slovakian Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, where the Nazi regime systematically murdered over a million Jews. The film will chart Gary’s first visit to this most…
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