Shoah (1985)
Country: FR
Technical: col 566m
Director: Claude Lanzmann
Cast: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl
Synopsis:
A documentary reconstruction of the holocaust, via interview footage between the director and survivors.
Review:
Eschewing archive material, but revisiting locations such as Treblinka, Lanzmann's painstaking magnum opus makes for gripping cinema is spite of the fact that some of it is poorly shot or recorded in cramped apartments or heard in voiceover. The incongruous joviality of one participant, or the self-condemnatory testimony of another, recall the mock-gregarious interview technique of Marcel Ophüls a decade and a half earlier. A life-changing movie, or a televisual event, depending on the circumstances in which you saw it.
Country: FR
Technical: col 566m
Director: Claude Lanzmann
Cast: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl
Synopsis:
A documentary reconstruction of the holocaust, via interview footage between the director and survivors.
Review:
Eschewing archive material, but revisiting locations such as Treblinka, Lanzmann's painstaking magnum opus makes for gripping cinema is spite of the fact that some of it is poorly shot or recorded in cramped apartments or heard in voiceover. The incongruous joviality of one participant, or the self-condemnatory testimony of another, recall the mock-gregarious interview technique of Marcel Ophüls a decade and a half earlier. A life-changing movie, or a televisual event, depending on the circumstances in which you saw it.
Country: FR
Technical: col 566m
Director: Claude Lanzmann
Cast: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl
Synopsis:
A documentary reconstruction of the holocaust, via interview footage between the director and survivors.
Review:
Eschewing archive material, but revisiting locations such as Treblinka, Lanzmann's painstaking magnum opus makes for gripping cinema is spite of the fact that some of it is poorly shot or recorded in cramped apartments or heard in voiceover. The incongruous joviality of one participant, or the self-condemnatory testimony of another, recall the mock-gregarious interview technique of Marcel Ophüls a decade and a half earlier. A life-changing movie, or a televisual event, depending on the circumstances in which you saw it.