Bibliograph

Shoah, IFC Films, Les Films Aleph and Films Aleph, Historia Films with the participation of The French Ministrère de la Culture ; directed by Claude Lanzmann

Type

Label

Shoah, IFC Films, Les Films Aleph and Films Aleph, Historia Films with the participation of The French Ministrère de la Culture ; directed by Claude Lanzmann

Language

fre

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Shoah

Oclc number

849656873

Responsibility statement

IFC Films, Les Films Aleph and Films Aleph, Historia Films with the participation of The French Ministrère de la Culture ; directed by Claude Lanzmann

Runtime

566

Series statement

Criterion collection, 663

Summary

Over a decade in the making, this is the 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