SHOAH

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• Release Year: 1985
• Genre: Documentary, War
• Plot: Over a decade in the making, Claude Lanzmann’s nine-hour-plus opus is a monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Lanzmann instead focuses on first-person testimonies (of survivors and former Nazis, as well as other witnesses), employing a circular, free-associative method in assembling them. The intellectual yet emotionally overwhelming Shoah is not a film about excavating the past but an intensive portrait of the ways in which the past is always present, and it is inarguably one of the most important cinematic works of all time.; ; DIRECTOR-APPROVED SIX-DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES; ; • New, restored 4K digital film transfer; • Three additional films by directory Claude Lanzmann: A Vistor from the Living (1999, 68 minutes); Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001, 102 minutes; and The Karski Report (2010, 49 minutes); • New conversation between Lanzmann and critic Serge Toubiana; • Interview with Lanzmann from 2003 about A visitor from the Living and Sobibór; • New interview with Caroline Champetier, assistant camera person on Shoah, and filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin; • Trailer; • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones and writings by Lanzmann
• Cast: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl, Hanna Zaidl, Jan Piwonski, Itzhak Dugin, Richard Glazer, Paula Biren, Pana Pietyra, Pan Filipowicz, Pan Falborski, Abraham Bomba, Czeslaw Borowi, Henrik Gawkowski, Rudolf Vrba, Inge Deutschkron, Franz Suchomel, Filip Müller, Joseph Oberhauser, Anton Spiess, Raul Hilberg, Franz Schaliing, Martha Michelsohn, Claude Lanzmann, Moshe Mordo, Armando Aaron, Walter Stier, Ruth Elias, Jan Karski, Franz Grassler, Gertude Schneider, Itzhak Zuckermann, Simha Rotem
• Director: Claude Lanzmann
• Runtime: 9:26
• Company: Les Films Aleph, Historia Films, IFC Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie