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Mood:
- BleakContemplativeDisturbingCaptivatingThought ProvokingCleverTense
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Plot:
- Uncover TruthHuman NatureHuman SpiritMoral DilemmaAnti SemitismAnti WarGenocideHolocaust more...
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Genres:
- HistoricalForeignDocumentary
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century80s
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Place:
- EuropePoland
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- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedEssentialMasterpieceBerlin Festival WinnerPrestigious Awards
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- Talky
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Based on:
- Based on True Story
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Shoah, 1985
English, German, Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish, French
France
Profile of Shoah
Shoah can be described as disturbing, thought provoking, and bleak. The plot revolves around anti semitism, genocide, and the Holocaust. The main genres are foreign, documentary, and historical. In terms of style, Shoah is talky. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. Shoah is located in Poland. It takes place in the 1980s. It is originally a true story. Shoah has received attention for being a Berlin festival winner, a masterpiece, and essential viewing.
Summary of Shoah
Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories -- survivors, bystanders and perpetrators -- Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.
Details
| Language: | English, German, Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish, French |
| Country: | France |
| Release date: | 23 October 1985 |
| Runtime: | 544 min |
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