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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 – a...
Florence Jacobowitz | May 2020 Claude Lanzmann had many accomplishments worth remembering. He was a decorated resistance fighter, philosopher, friend and colleague of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, editor of Les Temps Modernes, writer, journalist and filmmaker. Although his career as a filmmaker begins with Pourquoi Israël (1973), it is Shoah (1985) and the satellite films that followed using footage shot at the time he was preparing Shoah that make Lanzmann one of the most important filmmakers of the post-war period. Shoah is a work of art perfectly suited to Lanzma...