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Rewatching and reevaluating Holocaust epic Shoah
May 29, 2021
Released in 1985, the epic Holocaust documentary
Shoah won critical acclaim and several prominent awards. The film is now being reevaluated, however, not least the way it deals with Poland’s Holocaust experience.
Claude Lanzmann’s 1985 nine-hour documentary film
Shoah consists only of interviews. There is no arrival footage, no musical background and no narration.
The interviews are often conducted in the locations the film’s interviewees – mainly the Polish or German witnesses, but not most of the Jewish survivors – are describing.
Lanzmann stressed what he called the topographical character of the film, with a lot of time spent silently panning empty fields, forests, or camp remains. This was, he said, meant to combine knowledge of past events with an experience of space. The film was supposed to become a “new form” that would tell a different story about the Holocaust. Lanzmann called it “a fic
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