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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

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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Village Voice by

It has come to serve as a solemn metaphor for remembrance, as well as for butt-numbing endurance.

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Time Out by David Fear

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.

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Boston Globe by Ty Burr

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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