Shoah (re-release)

Name: Shoah (re-release)
Genre: Documentary
Released: December 10, 2010
Duration: 503 min
Rating: 99

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New Yorker Films | Release Date: December 10, 2010 | Not Rated

Summary: Twelve years in the making, Shoah is Claude Lanzmann’s monumental epic on the Holocaust featuring interviews with survivors, bystanders and perpetrators in 14 countries. The film does not contain any historical footage but rather features interviews which seek to ‘‘reincarnate’’ the Jewish tragedy and also visits places where the crimesTwelve years in the making, Shoah is Claude Lanzmann’s monumental epic on the Holocaust featuring interviews with survivors, bystanders and perpetrators in 14 countries. The film does not contain any historical footage but rather features interviews which seek to ‘‘reincarnate’’ the Jewish tragedy and also visits places where the crimes took place. Growing out of Lanzmann’s concern that the genocide perpetrated only 40 years earlier was already retreating into the mists of time, and that the atrocity was becoming sanitized as History, his massive achievement-at once epic and intimate, immediate and definitive-is a triumph of form and content that reveals hidden truths while rewriting the rules of documentary filmmaking. Shoah remains nothing less than essential. [IFC Films]… Expand

Director: Claude Lanzmann

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 503 min

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100

Eric Hynes

Dec 10, 2010

It has come to serve as a solemn metaphor for remembrance, as well as for butt-numbing endurance. Read full review

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David Fear

Dec 10, 2010

Shoah's ultimate legacy, however, is being the final word on the Final Solution-one that renders every well-intentioned dramatic re-creation of such horrors into repulsive Ausch-kitsch by comparison. Read full review

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Peter Rainer

Jan 7, 2011

Despite its length, it is one of the most consistently engrossing and powerful movies ever made. Read full review

Ty Burr

Jan 20, 2011

Why revisit Shoah 25 years after it was first released? Because it matters more a quarter century on, just as it will matter even more in a hundred years, and 200, and - if it and we survive - a thousand. Read full review

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sakhan01

Jan 16, 2018

This is a long movie, but it’s worth watching. I think the length allows it to visit many areas and people, without rushing through or a need to dramatize. I like the pace; it gives the words, places, people, and events the time and respect they deserve. The beautiful yet somberThis is a long movie, but it’s worth watching. I think the length allows it to visit many areas and people, without rushing through or a need to dramatize. I like the pace; it gives the words, places, people, and events the time and respect they deserve. The beautiful yet somber landscapes, the faces, and all the other details add so much to each ‘telling’ within this movie!… Expand

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