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Shoah - Second Era / by Claude Lanzmann
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Shoah
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War and Violence.
- Inner city ghettos.
- War crimes.
- Internment camps.
- Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship.
- Chełmno, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.
- Local Subjects:
- War and Violence.
- Inner city ghettos.
- War crimes.
- Internment camps.
- Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship.
- Chełmno, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Sausalito, CA : Film Platform, 1985.
- Language Note:
- In French.
- In Yiddish.
- In Hebrew.
- In Polish.
- Original language in French.
- Original language in Yiddish.
- Original language in Hebrew.
- Original language in Polish.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Twelve years in the making, Shoah is Lanzmann's monumental epic on the Holocaust and features interviews with survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators in 14 countries. This two part documentary 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. It grew out of Lanzmann's concern that the genocide perpetrated only 40 years earlier was already retreating into the mists of time, and that 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.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed August 17, 2021).
- Won 1985 New York Film Critics Circle Award, Best Documentary
- Won 1986 Rotterdam International Film Festival, Best Documentary
- Won 1986 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Documentary
- Won 1986 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Special Award
- Won 1986 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award, Best Documentary
- Won 1986 International Documentary Association Award
- Won 1986 César Award, Honorary César
- Won 1986 Boston Society of Film Critics Award, Best Documentary
- Won 1986 Berlin International Film Festival OCIC Award - Honorable Mention
- Won 1986 Berlin International Film Festival Award, FIPRESCI Prize, Forum of New Cinema
- Won 1986 Berlin International Film Festival Caligari Film Award
- Won 1987 British Academy Flaherty Documentary Award
- Won 2014 Cinema Eye Honors Award, The Influentials
- Won 2019 Online Film & Television Association's Hall of Fame Award, Motion Picture
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