Publisher: Umbrella Entertainment Run time: 540mins Year: 1985 Release date: 16/06/2008 RRP: $ 49.99
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For the first time on DVD in New Zealand — Claude Lanzmann’s landmark
documentary about the holocaust, SHOAH. Lanzmann spent twelve
years spanning the globe for surviving camp inmates, SS commandants,
and eyewitnesses of the “Final Solution”.
Without dramatic
re-enactment or archival footage — but with extraordinary testimonies —
SHOAH renders the step-by-step machinery of extermination, and
through haunted landscapes and human voices, makes the past come
brilliantly alive.
SHOAH is a work of genius, an heroic endeavour to humanise the inhuman,
to tell the untellable, and to explore in unprecedented detail the
horrors of the past.
It is an immensely disturbing experience, yet in its solemnity
and beauty not a morbid or disheartening one. There are few works of
art which leave one with such a deep appreciation for the
preciousness and meaning of life. For these reasons, SHOAH is one of
the most powerful and important films of all time.
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