Shoah
Publication Information
[United States] : New Yorker Video, c2003.
Physical Description
4 videodiscs (566 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Series
Summary
Lanzmann directed this 9 1/2 hour documentary of the Holocaust without using a single frame of archival footage. He interviews survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis (whom he had to film secretly since they only agreed to be interviewed by audio). His style of interviewing by asking for the most minute details is effective in giving a horrifying portrait of the events of Nazi genocide. He also shows, or rather lets some of his subjects themselves show, that the anti-Semitism that caused 6 million Jews to die in the Holocaust is still alive and well in many people who still live in Germany, Poland, and elsewhere.
Notes
DVD format.
Videodisc release of the 1985 documentary film.
Not rated.
In English, French, Polish, German, Hebrew, Yiddish and Italian with optional subtitles in English and French.