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| SHOAH |
Year: 1985
USA: IFC Films
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
Director: Claude Lanzmann
Country: France
Language: English / German / Hebrew / Polish / Yiddish /
French (English subtitles)
USA: 544 mins
USA Release Date: 10 December 2010 (Limited Re-release)
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Synopsis
In celebration of the film’s 25th anniversary, Claude Lanzmann's
nine-and-a-half hour landmark documentary, SHOAH, considered one of
the greatest films ever made, is re-released.
Twelve years in the making, SHOAH is Claude Lanzmann’s monumental
epic on the Holocaust featuring interviews with survivors,
bystanders and perpetrators in 14 countries. The film 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.
Concerned that the genocide perpetrated only 40 years earlier was
already retreating into the mists of time, and that the atrocity was
becoming sanitized as History, Lanzmann rewrote the rules of
documentary filmmaking with SHOAH – a lasting and massive
achievement.
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