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  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 9 h 26 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 9 h 26 m

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 crimes ...

Directed By: Claude Lanzmann

  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 9 h 26 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 9 h 26 m

Shoah (re-release)

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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 37 User Ratings
7.1
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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 crimes ...

Directed By: Claude Lanzmann

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Metascore
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100
Jan 7, 2011
Despite its length, it is one of the most consistently engrossing and powerful movies ever made.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
100
Dec 10, 2010
It has come to serve as a solemn metaphor for remembrance, as well as for butt-numbing endurance.
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100
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.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW
88
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.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 37 User Ratings
7.1
68% Positive
25 Ratings
14% Mixed
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19% Negative
7 Ratings

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 37 User Ratings
7.1
68% Positive
25 Ratings
14% Mixed
5 Ratings
19% Negative
7 Ratings

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Production Company Les Films Aleph, Historia, Ministère de la Culture de la Republique Française
Release Date Dec 10, 2010
Duration 9 h 26 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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