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4. "Shoah," by Claude Lanzmann
Mon Feb 6, 2023, 07:21 PM
Feb 2023

In its entirety . . .




Shoah is the greatest use of film in motion picture history, taking movies to their highest moral value. For what director/interviewer Lanzmann has done on film is nothing less than revive history, a history so ugly that many would prefer to forget. ~ Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune

[It] has transcended the cinema to become a primary record of the extermination of European Jews during the Second World War. ~ Richard Brody, New Yorker

Its riveting nine hours are perhaps the most important piece of historical cinema we possess. ~ Kata Muir, Times (UK)

There is no proper response to this film. It is an enormous fact, a 550-minute howl of pain and anger in the face of genocide. It is one of the noblest films ever made. ~Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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