Film · 1985 · Documentary
Shoah
Directed by Claude Lanzmann
1985
France
★ 7.0 editorial score
Nine hours long, with no archive footage at all: Lanzmann spent eleven years getting survivors, bystanders and perpetrators to describe what they saw, standing on the actual sites.
“The film has been noted as a bold new approach, presenting the horrors of the Holocaust without a single minute of historical footage... "I wanted to show the absolute character of the Jewish tragedy," Mr. Lanzmann said. "I wanted to show how the Jews were taken and how they were alone, abandoned by the world. That is the tragedy."”
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