Shoah Comments

  • Kenton 2023-05-01 17:45:09

    @37th hkiff: A total of 9 and a half hours of footage. There is no footage. It is either a visit to the scene or an interview with related people. The documentary is not to pretend to be history, but to record the present. The interviewees' memories, their expressions all represented those dark days. Refusal to admit that what I knew back then was not to recognize the crime, but to deceive even myself. I was afraid of admitting it, and I didn't even have the courage to...

  • Jess 2023-04-28 16:24:26

    Save this movie until the last day of the year, 9 hours and 27 minutes of catastrophe, I should never see a longer movie than this in my life. From dawn to dark, the process is like my life this year The same, crossed me and left...

  • Arnold 2023-04-20 04:36:32

    Facing the cruelest period of human nature in...

  • Alexys 2023-03-16 09:32:42

    "I will give them an everlasting...

  • Russ 2023-03-14 01:59:09

    "The Catastrophe" and "Night and Fog" are exactly at the two extremes of the Jewish-themed films of World War II. One uses short science fiction to directly attack the terrifying reality scene, while this film uses the long narrative of later interviews and memories to realize epic images of historical material...

  • Madonna 2023-02-20 04:43:08

    A comprehensive display of perspectives from different directions in this human node event. The one with the most uncontrollable emotions was the Polish spy who got in touch with the Jews. He had no experience but visited the ghetto twice. The value of a documentary cannot be replaced by a book. There are smiles on the faces of the perpetrators, victims and bystanders, but the interpretation is completely...

  • Derrick 2023-02-06 22:35:27

    9 and a half minutes, which lasted for three days; the most tragic racial catastrophe in human history is reproduced in the form of witnesses, and it is also a true test of the viewer's vision, mind and endurance; the remains of the tragic experience still exist , but the corpses everywhere are nowhere to be found, and all we can do is to look for it in images and words, to understand it, and to cite history as an admonishment; fear cannot be felt, just like the word "horror" cannot be...

  • Angelina 2023-01-26 12:33:42

    Because of this, I won't dare to make documentaries in the...

  • Shanon 2023-01-23 22:34:41

    After watching it in a week, I feel that the time is too long and can be simplified. A lot of pages actually talk about the same content. It is estimated that the director is trying to show the authenticity and credibility of the content. The scenes narrated by the parties, in conjunction with the shooting of the current ruins, are particularly real, and cruel scenes can be imagined, but they cannot be completely imagined. Forget the national humiliation that we mention every year, in fact,...

  • Gardner 2023-01-23 01:50:33

    After watching the first episode, it took a few months before I dared to watch the next episode. This area is more than nine hours long, and the night and fog are only half an hour. It is higher than this area and I don't know where it...

Extended Reading

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