Bibliograph

Shoah, a film by Claude Lanzmann

Type

Label

Shoah, a film by Claude Lanzmann

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Rating: Not rated

Main title

Shoah

Oclc number

844090079

Responsibility statement

a film by Claude Lanzmann

Runtime

566

Series statement

The Criterion collection, 1985

Summary

Over a decade in the making, this monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Claude Lanzmann instead focuses on first-person testimonies (of survivors and former Nazis, and 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 in which the past is always present

Technique

live action

Classification