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  • 2013
  • PG-13
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 3 h 40 m
  • 2013
  • PG-13
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 3 h 40 m

Summary A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the last step before the gas chamber. A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council, a fallen hero condemned to exile, wh...

Directed By: Claude Lanzmann

Written By: Claude Lanzmann

  • 2013
  • PG-13
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 3 h 40 m
  • 2013
  • PG-13
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 3 h 40 m

The Last of the Unjust

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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Summary A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the last step before the gas chamber. A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council, a fallen hero condemned to exile, wh...

Directed By: Claude Lanzmann

Written By: Claude Lanzmann

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100
Jan 8, 2015
The running time (like all Lanzmann's films) is not oppressive but allows for Murmelstein and his interlocutor to talk through, around and inside the context and reality of pragmatism, egoism, heroism and evil.
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90
Feb 13, 2014
The new film may not qualify for masterpiece status, but it's an enthralling portrait of a man — an exceptionally brilliant and articulate man — who personified the courage, complexity and moral ambiguity of his tortured time.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW
88
Feb 7, 2014
My hunch is that most viewers, whatever their previous views on this fraught subject, will come away not only fascinated but largely convinced by Murmelstein.
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80
Feb 4, 2014
Lanzmann’s feisty exchanges with Murmelstein, a brilliant talker, become an emotional symbol for the pursuit of slippery truth, while the filmmaker’s recently shot footage of Yom Kippur services show a way of life in robust continuation.
By Joshua Rothkopf FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 6, 2014
Lanzmann, for his part, begins the interview with a sharp, probing manner; by the end, the filmmaker’s questions and body language are conveying something altogether different.
By Farran Smith Nehme FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 3, 2014
In short, The Last of the Unjust is every bit as quarrelsome as it should be. Murmelstein, recounting the circumstances in which he took mortally serious decisions, dares to ask us if we could have done any better.
By Anthony Lane FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 5, 2014
It’s a valuable historical document, to be sure; as a movie, however, it’s a dry, grueling experience, lacking Shoah’s monumental grandeur.
By Mike D'Angelo FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Synecdoche, Le Pacte, Dor Film Produktionsgesellschaft, Canal+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Ciné+, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, France 3 Cinéma, France Télévisions, La Région Île-de-France, Les Films Aleph, ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen
Release Date Dec 13, 2013
Duration 3 h 40 m
Rating PG-13
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Awards

César Awards, France
• 1 Nomination
Golden Trailer Awards
• 1 Nomination
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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