Special programme "Shoah"  

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Shoah (part II)

Twelve years in the making, Shoah is Lanzmann’s monumental epic on the Holocaust, and features interviews with survivors, bystanders and perpetrators in fourteen different countries. The film does not contain any historical footage, but rather features interviews which seek to “reincarnate” the Jewish tragedy, and visits the places where the crimes took place. It grew out of Lanzmann’s concern that the genocide perpetrated only forty years earlier, was already retreating into the mists of time; that the atrocity was becoming sanitised by history. His massive achievement – at once epic and intimate, immediate and definitive – was a triumph of form and content that revealed hidden truths while rewriting the rules of documentary filmmaking. Shoah remains nothing less than essential.

Awards

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, USA – The Influentials (2014)
BAFTA Awards – Flaherty Documentary Award (1987)
Berlin International Film Festival – Caligari Film Award (1986)
Rotterdam International Film Festival – Best Documentary (1986)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards – Special Award (1985)

Claude Lanzmann

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris, and was one of the organisers of the French Resistance. He is the holder of a Resistance Medal with Rosette, and was awarded his Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy at the European Graduate School, where he is now a Professor of Documentary Film. Making Shoah took up all of his time over a twelve year period.

Selected Filmography

The Karski Report (2010)
Tsahal (1994)
Israel Why (1973) 

Film sessions

09.23 Wednesday
  • Skalvija (Vilnius) 16:30


Information

Director and Scriptwriter: Claude Lanzmann
Cinematography: Dominique Chapuis, Jimmy Glasberg, William Lubtchansky
Editing: Ziva Postec, Anna Ruiz
Sound: Bernard Oubouy, Michel Vionnet
Producer: Claude Lanzmann
Production: BBC, Historia, Les Films Aleph
France, 1985, 135’