Shoah Comments

  • Brittany 2023-07-04 04:34:46

    After visiting the Dachau concentration camp, I specially found this documentary and watched it intermittently. Every second of the nine hours was very depressing, and it was so depressing that I burst into tears several times. The long shot of the aerial scene is the main picture, and I want to achieve a deafening sound effect in my mind through extremely restrained audio-visual. The narrator's narration brings a terrifying and serious historical experience to the audience. It is not a trial...

  • Mauricio 2023-06-28 00:50:12

    9.75 Cruel Deep Access. 9 hours of excruciating physical and mental torture. For a unique way of recording historical events, objective is...

  • Nannie 2023-06-19 16:05:44

    1. The middle section, the detail that describes them being undressed, sterilized, and going to the incinerator had not been seen before. 2. If I survived by chance, I will keep asking for the rest of my life, why I survived, constantly blaming myself and doubting...

  • Barton 2023-06-02 22:19:07

    Auschwitz in Poland is the eternal scarring of the Jewish nation. This documentary tells the story of the Jewish genocide, which was carried out like a boiled frog, step by step and extremely...

  • Jacinthe 2023-06-01 14:22:58

    Dressed up with magic tablets, the emperor's new clothes, more than 9 hours of foot wraps. There are many excellent documentaries and feature films about World War II, but this one can only be regarded as a super-long TV...

  • Aida 2023-05-24 12:39:54

    Nine and a half hours of interviews in the form of a documentary about the Jewish extermination in Europe during World War II. There is no sense of sadness, and it even feels very lengthy. Every time between translations, I want to fast-forward, damn...

  • Adolfo 2023-05-21 14:05:10

    The nine-hour documentary has only seen the first one and a half hours. It will be read in time, this work is worth spending nine hours to take seriously. This film has a level of shock and "horror" that cannot be achieved by any drama film about the Holocaust. From the perspective of film creation, it is also extremely special and has its audio-visual beauty. Six million Jews were slaughtered for no reason other than because they were...

  • Jerad 2023-05-12 13:41:33

    While watching Beauvoir's biography, I remembered this documentary by Lanzmann again. Recording is more important than watching. 9 hours is basically an interview, breaking the habit of watching movies. But this is very precious image data, and the process of recording itself is too difficult. For Lanzmann, completing such a documentary was his mission, and that was the most important...

  • Amiya 2023-05-12 11:13:16

    The attention of long-term movie viewers is inevitably distracted. On the other hand, the long-term high-intensity event narrative allows the audience to enter a single feeling space, which resonates strongly. Compared with feature films, documentaries have a stronger authorship. Claude Lanzmann's attitude also runs through the film: compassion for the suffering of the Jews, indifferent contempt and mockery of the Poles, and accusations of the evil deeds of the...

  • Marcel 2023-05-05 09:09:46

    A nine-and-a-half-hour documentary, which took ten years to complete, did not use historical video files at all, but was a 100% interview record, a very sharp interview. Interviewees included survivors, those who helped the Nazis exterminate the Jews, Nazi officers, the German widow of a Nazi teacher, and a large number of bystanders. Claude Landsmann explores the details of the massacres of Chermno, Treblinka and Auschwitz-Birkenau, trying to restore the operation of the "death machine" of the...

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Shoah quotes

  • Franz Suchomel: If you lie enough, you believe your own lies.

  • Claude Lanzmann: You don't remember those days?

    Franz Grassler: Not much. I recall more clearly my pre-war mountaineering trips than the entire war period and those days in Warsaw. All, in all, those were bad times. It's a fact we tend to forget, thank God, the bad times more easily than the good. The bad times are repressed.

Shoah

Director: Claude Lanzmann

Language: German,Hebrew,Polish,Yiddish,French,English,Greek,Italian Release date: November 1985