It has come to serve as a solemn metaphor for remembrance, as well as for butt-numbing endurance.
Shoah
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France, United Kingdom · 1985
9h 26m
Director Claude Lanzmann
Starring Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl, Claude Lanzmann
Genre Documentary, History
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Claude Lanzmann directed this 9.5 hour documentary of the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage. He interviews survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis (filmed secretly, since they only agreed to be interviewed by audio). His subjects reveal a horrifying portrait of the Nazi genocide, and show that anti-Semitism persists in Germany, Poland, and elsewhere.
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Shoah's ultimate legacy, however, is being the final word on the Final Solution-one that renders every well-intentioned dramatic re-creation of such horrors into repulsive Ausch-kitsch by comparison.
Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
Despite its length, it is one of the most consistently engrossing and powerful movies ever made.
Why revisit Shoah 25 years after it was first released? Because it matters more a quarter century on, just as it will matter even more in a hundred years, and 200, and - if it and we survive - a thousand.
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