Carl Roberts 
Academy Award Winner Steve McQueen’s monumental portrait of Amsterdam and the ghosts of World War II, Occupied City, is now available to watch at home.
Informed by the book Atlas Of An Occupied City by Bianca Stigter, award-winning director Steve McQueen’s documentary, Occupied City is now available to watch at home. The documentary is a monumental portrait of Amsterdam and the ghosts of World War II. The documentary runs for four hours and twenty-six minutes in total. McQueen has said there exists a thirty-six-hour version of the documentary. This version includes everything that is included in Bianca Stigter’s book.
The film is a co-production between the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the United States. The documentary had its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival on 17 May 2023 as a special screening. At the festival, it competed for the L’Œil d’Or. It opened in the USA on December 25th, 2023 from A24. It has recently opened in the UK.
SYNOPSIS
The past collides with our precarious present in Steve McQueen’s bravura documentary Occupied City. From the streets of Amsterdam, McQueen creates two interlocking portraits. A vivid journey through the last years of pandemic and protest. And a door-to-door excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts his adopted city. What emerges is both devastating and life-affirming. An expansive meditation on memory, time, and where we’re headed.
Occupied City is available to watch at home now.
Source: A24
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