Claude Lanzmann's monumental Shoah is the most celebrated film about the Holocaust ever made. For eleven years, Lanzmann traveled the world in search of those witnesses closest to the agony of the Jews of Europe during the Nazi terror. In superbly conducted, detailed interviews, rendered in searchi[...]
A nine-and-a-half-hour documentary on the Nazi extermination camps, Shoah (the Hebrew word for "Holocaust") was internationally hailed as a masterpiece upon its release in 1985. Shunning any re-creation, archival footage, or visual documentation of the events, filmmaker Claude Lanzmann relied on th[...]
"Even if I lived a hundred lives, I still wouldn't be exhausted." These words capture the intensity of the experiences of Claude Lanzmann, a man whose acts have always been a negation of resignation: a member of the Resistance at sixteen, a friend to Jean-Paul Sartre and a lover to Simone de Beauvoi[...]
"Even if I lived a hundred lives, I still wouldn't be exhausted." These words capture the intensity of the experiences of Claude Lanzmann, a man whose acts have always been a negation of resignation: a member of the Resistance at sixteen, a friend to Jean-Paul Sartre and a lover to Simone de Beauvoi[...]
Claude Lanzmann är en av de franska intellektuella nittonhundratalsgiganterna. I Sverige är han kanske mest känd för den nio timmar långa dokumentärfilmen om judeförintelsen, Shoah, och för att under många år ha levt i en triangelrelation med Simone de Beauvoir och Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Den nio och en halv timme långa filmen Shoah innehåller ett stort antal intervjuer med personer som överlevt nazisternas utrotningsläger. Både offer och bödlar. Här står texterna för sig själva och de får en märklig kraft och styrka.
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This book tells the gripping true story of the Orensteins, a Jewish family living in Poland during the Second World War. When Henry Orenstein and his siblings end up in a series of concentrations camps, Orenstein's bravery and quick thinking help him to save himself and his brothers from execution b[...]