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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.
| Running Time: | 274+293 min. |
| Subject(s): | European History, Genocide, History, Holocaust, Human Rights, Jewish Studies, War |
| Language(s): | English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish |
| Subtitles: | English |
| Director(s): | |
| Producer(s): | Claude Lanzmann |
| Cinematographer: | Dominique Chapuis, Jimmy Glasberg, Phil Gries (documentary segments), William Lubtchansky |
| Editor(s): | Ziva Postec, Anna Ruiz, Yael Perlov |
| Production Company: | IFC Films |
