DVD
Shoah
Edition
Director-approved six-DVD special ed.
Languages
In French, Italian, Polish, German, English, Hebrew and Yiddish, with English subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2013]
Physical Description
6 videodiscs (566 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (60 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Over a decade in the making, this nine-hour-plus opus is a monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, director Claude Lanzmann instead focuses on first-person testimonies (of survivors and former Nazis, and other witnesses), employing a circular, free-associative method in assembling them. The intellectual yet emotionally overwhelming Shoah is not a film about excavating the past but an intensive portrait of the ways in which the past is always present.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a documentary in 1985.
Special features: three additional films by director Claude Lanzmann: A visitor from the living (1999, 68 min.); Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001, 102 min.); The Karski report (2010, 49 min.) ; conversation between Lanzmann and critic Serge Toubiana ; interview with Lanzmann from 2003 about A visitor from the living and Sobibór ; interview with Caroline Champetier, assistant camera person on Shoah, and filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin ; trailer.
Contents
- First era, part one
- First era, part two
- Disc 3. Second era, part one
- Second era, part two --