Shoah : four sisters
Languages
French, German, English and Hebrew dialogue; English subtitles
Performers
Ruth Elias, Ada Lichtman, Hanna Marton, Paula Biren.
Publication Information
Beverly Hills, CA : Entertainment One Film USA
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (273 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Series
Summary
"Starting in 1999, Claude Lanzmann made several films that could be considered satellites of SHOAH, comprised of interviews conducted in the 1970s that didn't make it into the final, monumental work. In the last years of the late director's life, he decided to devote a film to four women from four different areas of Eastern Europe with four different destinies, each finding herself improbably alive after war's end: Ruth Elias from Ostravia, Czechoslovakia; Paula Biren from Lodz, Poland; Ada Lichtman from further south in Krakow; and Hannah Marton from Cluj, or Kolozsvár, in Transylvania. Survivors of unimaginable Nazi horrors during the Holocaust, they tell their individual stories and become crucial witnesses to the barbarism they experienced. Each possesses a vivid intelligence and a commitment to candor that make their accounts of what they suffered through both searing and unforgettable"--Container.
Notes
Originally produced in 2017.
Special feature: Conversation with Bernard-Henri Lévy moderated by Deborah Lipstadt at the Streicker Center.
Contents
- Disc 1. Hippocratic oath ; Merry flea
- Disc 2. Noah's ark ; Baluty.