Review of Shoah (1985) by Heather M — 01 Oct 2007
No documentary film came ever closer to the meaning of the horror of the massdestruction of human lifes during world war II. The center of the film are the death camps of the nazis in poland and the czech republic. Lanzmann interviews jewish people who survived this camps. He calls them the "returned", because all of them were already kind of dead, and came back to life.
Furthermore he intervies bystanders and prepetrators, both showing that they knew precicesly what went on in these camps. Refusing help out of different "reasons". With his interview technique Lanzmann unmasks their motives.
This film is indescribably and everybody should have seen it. Especially people who still try to negate the holocaust. For me one of the most important films in my life.
This review of Shoah (1985) was written by Heather M on 01 Oct 2007.
Shoah has generally received very positive reviews.
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