Shoah, Part 1

Duration: 02:29:00 "Shoah" is Claude Lanzmann's landmark documentary meditation on the Holocaust. Assembled from footage shot by the filmmaker during the 1970s and 1980s, it investigates the genocide at the level of experience: the geographical layout of the camps and the ghettos; the...

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Other Authors: Lanzmann, Claude
Institution:Open Society Archives at Central European University
Language:English
Italian
Yiddish
Hebrew
Polish
French
German
Published: France 1985
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:6292b2d9-268d-4ffe-9ad5-08a0624e7ab4
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Summary:Duration: 02:29:00 "Shoah" is Claude Lanzmann's landmark documentary meditation on the Holocaust. Assembled from footage shot by the filmmaker during the 1970s and 1980s, it investigates the genocide at the level of experience: the geographical layout of the camps and the ghettos; the daily routines of imprisonment; the inexorable trauma of humiliation, punishment, extermination; and the fascinating insights of those who experienced these events first hand. Without dramatic enactment or archival footage, but with extraordinary testimonies, "Shoah" renders the step-by-step machinery of extermination: the minutiae of timetables and finances, the logistics of herding victims into the gas chambers and disposing of the corpses afterward, the bureaucratic procedures which expedited the killing of millions of people without mentioning the words "killing" or "people." Through haunted landscapes and human voice, the past is revealed.
Published:1985