Hidden Hopes

A Historic Media presentation from the Jean-Pierre Delbecq-Matt Mazer production. Produced by Mazer, Steven Meyer, Christopher J. Gambale. Executive producer, Delbecq. Co-producers, Andrew Montgomery, Yaron Svoray. Directed by Steven Meyer. Put together by Douglas K. Dempsey, Matt Mazer.With: Adam Frydman, Tessie Jacob, Ella Prince, Alexander Blank, David Prince. Narrator: Laurie Anderson. (British, Polish dialogue)In Steven Meyer's overfamiliar and underwhelming docu "Hidden Hopes," several concentration-camping children return to the web site from the distressing recollections, Poland's Maidanek dying camping. They're based on an worldwide team of archeologists and scientists to look in fields where Jews hid their possessions in order to the crematorium, the hurried search plays less poignantly than intended. The docu's insistent inflation of hidden gold jewelry and watches into symbols of heroic defiance and transcendental tragedy rings hollow inside the wake more substantial Holocaust recommendations. Opening November. 18 at Gotham's Quad Cinema, "Hopes" reps a little historic footnote. Helmer Meyer never fully includes his docu's disparate elements. Yesteryear-haunted visit by troubled children, together with the intonation of Kaddish to start of dying, are actually more movingly referred to elsewhere. Little evocative use includes the strikingly oppressive appearance of Maidanek itself, which stands, virtually intact, just like a memorial to atrocity. As well as the constant sell you of the value of the search constitutes a person suspect that, definately not being along for your ride, the documentary crew comprises the driving pressure behind the whole enterprise.Camera (color, HD), Meyer editor, Dempsey music, David Van Tieghem. Examined on DVD, NY, November. 14, 2011. Running time: 81 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com