Shoah.

Twelve years in the making, Shoah is Lanzmann's monumental epic on the Holocaust and features interviews with survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators in 14 countries. This two part documentary does not contain any historical footage but rather features interviews which seek to "reincarnate...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Video
Language:Multiple languages
Language Notes:In English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, with English subtitles.
Published: [New York] : IFC Films, 1985.
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Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Twelve years in the making, Shoah is Lanzmann's monumental epic on the Holocaust and features interviews with survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators in 14 countries. This two part documentary does not contain any historical footage but rather features interviews which seek to "reincarnate" the Jewish tragedy and also visits places where the crimes took place. It grew out of Lanzmann's concern that the genocide perpetrated only 40 years earlier was already retreating into the mists of time, and that atrocity was becoming sanitized as History. His massive achievement - at once epic and intimate, immediate and definitive - is a triumph of form and content that reveals hidden truths while rewriting the rules of documentary filmmaking.
Item Description:In 2 parts, of 274 minutes and 293 minutes each.
Physical Description:1 streaming video file (567 min.) : sound, color
Production Credits:Director, Claude Lanzmann ; producer, Claude Lanzmann.