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  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 4 h 33 m
  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 4 h 33 m
Shoah: Four Sisters

Summary Starting in 1999, Claude Lanzmann made several films that could be considered satellites of Shoah, comprised of interviews conducted in the 1970s that didn’t make it into the final, monumental work. In the last years of the late director’s life, he decided to devote a film to four women from four different areas of Eastern Europe with fo...

Directed By: Claude Lanzmann

Written By: Claude Lanzmann

  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 4 h 33 m
  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 4 h 33 m

Shoah: Four Sisters

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Summary Starting in 1999, Claude Lanzmann made several films that could be considered satellites of Shoah, comprised of interviews conducted in the 1970s that didn’t make it into the final, monumental work. In the last years of the late director’s life, he decided to devote a film to four women from four different areas of Eastern Europe with fo...

Directed By: Claude Lanzmann

Written By: Claude Lanzmann

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Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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100
Nov 14, 2018
The women are all compelling though never too-polished storytellers. Whether they succumb to the horror of what they're describing and start to cry or remain stoic throughout becomes part of the experience of hearing the tale.
By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW
100
Nov 14, 2018
Their stories are as harrowing, complicated and rife with imponderables as any Lanzmann filmed. And together, collected in a form that is much less labyrinthine than “Shoah,” they represent an ideal introduction (and capstone) to Lanzmann’s project.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
100
Nov 12, 2018
By uniting these four interviews in particular, Claude Lanzmann emphasizes the impossibility of moral clarity in the unthinkable circumstances into which Germany’s invasion of Eastern Europe threw its Jewish population.
By Pat Brown FULL REVIEW
95
Nov 14, 2018
The approximately 270-minute running time becomes a hushed demand for the viewer to sit with historical cruelty and listen as its victims teach to the future, its effect a cumulative cry of warning for today.
By Dave White FULL REVIEW
90
Nov 20, 2018
These four, like so many others, opened up to Claude Lanzmann, and the results speak eloquently for themselves.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 20, 2018
Their most potent commentary is often their silence, their wordless responses to those questions that are unanswerable. Their restraint and dignity are an emotional sucker punch.
By Simi Horwitz FULL REVIEW
67
Nov 13, 2018
Perhaps Four Sisters is best considered a parting gesture from Lanzmann, ensuring that, in his body of work at least, these four “sisters” should endure as more than just a footnote.
By Lawrence Garcia FULL REVIEW

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Production Company ARTE, Synecdoche, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah
Release Date Nov 14, 2018
Duration 4 h 33 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

CinEuphoria Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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