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Summary:

Over a decade in the making, this monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, 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 in which the past is always present.

Table of Contents:

• Disc 1. First era, part one
• disc 2. First era, part two
• disc 3. Second era, part one
• disc 4. Second era, part two
• disc 5. Supplements
• disc 6. Supplements.

Contributors:

Lanzmann, Claude , film director, screenwriter

Postec, Ziva , editor of moving image work

Chapuis, Dominique, 1948-2001 , director of photography

Glasberg, Jimmy , director of photography

Lubtchansky, William , director of photography

Toubiana, Serge , interviewer

Champetier, Caroline , interviewee

Desplechin, Arnaud , interviewee

Karski, Jan, 1914-2000 , interviewee

Rossel, Maurice , interviewee

Lerner, Yehuda , interviewee

Frappat, Hélène , interviewer

Jones, Kent, 1964- , writer of added text

Films Aleph

Historia Films (France)

France Ministère de la culture

IFC Films

Why Not Productions Inc.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

Languages:

English
French
German
Hebrew
Italian
Polish
Yiddish

Language Notes:

French, Italian, Polish, German, English, Hebrew and Yiddish (monaural) dialogue with English subtitles and English SDH (subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing).

Included Works:

Karski report

Visitor from the living

Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m.

Related Series:

Criterion collection; [volume] 663

Subjects:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) — Personal narratives

Holocaust survivors — Interviews

Jews — Persecutions — Poland

Poland — Ethnic relations

Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)

1939-1945

Holocaust survivors

Jews — Persecutions

Jews

Ethnic relations

Poland

Genres:

Motion pictures

Oral histories

Historical films

Documentary films

Nonfiction films

Feature films

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Personal narratives

System Details:

DVD; NTSC; region 1; fullscreen (1.37:1) presentation.

Performers:

Interviewees: Armando Aaron, Paula Biren, Abraham Bomba, Czeslaw Borowi, Inge Deutschkron, Itzhak Dugin, Ruth Elias, Pan Falborski, Pan Filipowicz, Henrik Gawkowski, Richard Glazar, Franz Grassler, Raul Hilberg, Jan Karski, Martha Michelson, Moshe Mordo, Filip Müller, Joseph Oberhauser, Pana Pietyra, Jan Piwonski, Michaël Podchlebnik, Simha Rottem, Franz Schalling, Gertrude Schneider's mother, Alfred Spiess, Simon Srebnik, Walter Stier, Franz Suchomel, Rudolf Vrba, Motke Zaïdl, Hanna Zaïdl, Itzhak Zuckermann.

Production Credits:

Film editor, Ziva Postec ; directors of photography, Dominique Chapuis, Jimmy Glasberg, William Lubtchansky.

General Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1985.
"This digital print of Shoah was produced by Why Not Productions in 2012, with the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah and the Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée, as well as the participation of IFC Films and the Criterion Collection."
Special features: Disc 1: Trailer. Disc 5: On Shoah (interview with Claude Lanzmann by Serge Toubiana); Caroline Champetier and Arnaud Desplechin (new interview with Champetier, assistant camera person on Shoah, and filmmaker Desplechin); The Karski report (2010, 49 min., additional footage of Jan Karski). Disc 6: A visitor from the living (1999, 68 min., documentary of Theresienstadt, with interview of Maurice Rossel); Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001, 102 min., documentary of the uprising at the Sobibór concentration camp, with interview of Yehuda Lerner); Claude Lanzmann (director discusses the making of A visitor from the living and Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. with writer Hélène Frappat). Booklet features essay by critic Kent Jones and writings by Lanzmann.

Physical Description:

6 videodiscs (566 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; polychrome; monochrome

Audio Characteristics:

optical; mono; digital

Video Characteristics:

laser optical; NTSC

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video; region 1

Call Numbers:

SHO 1985 DVD

ISBNs:

9781604657197
1604657197

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 715515105316
Publisher Number, The Criterion Collection: CC2257D

OCLC Numbers:

898305249
844090079 [Invalid]