In another first, newsreel cameras were allowed into the Abbey itself, although those watching the wedding film only saw the backs of the happy couple at the altar.

BBC: Royal weddings: A brief history

The core of the film is the footage five reels that appear to provide a newsreel-like record of ghetto life, along with a recently recovered sixth reel, filled with outtakes that reveal the events to have been staged in which the poverty and degradation of interned Jews, who were wracked with starvation, disease, and despair, was contrasted with scenes of comfort and banal luxuries that other Jews enjoyed there.

NEWYORKER: A Film Unfinished

Despite the huge coverage -- film technology was in its early days but the remarkable incident was captured on three newsreel cameras -- many newspaper front pages instead led on the winning horse.

CNN: SHARE THIS

To paraphrase the words of Winston Churchill, who is seen in newsreel footage of the Potsdam Peace Conference in "The Good German, " Steven Soderbergh's new film is a puzzle wrapped in a mystery inside a perversity.

WSJ: Film Review