General Information

Author/Creator

Lanzmann, Claude, director.

Language

English, Polish, Italian, Hebrew, Yiddish.

Subtitles

English

Published

France, 1985.

Physical Description

DVD-ROM (149 min.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

"Shoah" is Claude Lanzmann's landmark documentary meditation on the Holocaust. Assembled from footage shot by the filmmaker during the 1970s and 1980s, it investigates the genocide at the level of experience: the geographical layout of the camps and the ghettos; the daily routines of imprisonment; the inexorable trauma of humiliation, punishment, extermination; and the fascinating insights of those who experienced these events first hand. Without dramatic enactment or archival footage, but with extraordinary testimonies, "Shoah" renders the step-by-step machinery of extermination: the minutiae of timetables and finances, the logistics of herding victims into the gas chambers and disposing of the corpses afterward, the bureaucratic procedures which expedited the killing of millions of people without mentioning the words "killing" or "people." Through haunted landscapes and human voice, the past is revealed.

Subjects

Genre

Documentary films

Bibliographic Information

Note

Duration: 02:29:00

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
DVD-ROM	OSA Film Library	OSA Film Library	FL Record 0054		-	-