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DVD ~ Simon Srebnik

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Actors: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl, Hanna Zaidl, Jan Piwonski
Directors: Claude Lanzmann
Format: Box set, Black & White, Colour, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Language English, French, German, Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish
Subtitles: English, French, Italian
Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Number of discs: 4
Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
Studio: New Yorker Video
DVD Release Date: 7 Oct 2003
Run Time: 503 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

ASIN: B00005JM8V
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 134,358 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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To write a review of a film such as Shoah seems an impossible task: how to sum up one of the most powerful discourses on film in such a way as to make people realise that this is a documentary of immense consequence, a documentary that is not easy to watch but important to watch, a documentary that not only records the facts but bears witness. We are commanded "Never forget"; this film helps us to fulfil that mandate, reverberating with the viewer long after the movie has ended. Yes, Holocaust films are plentiful, both fictional and non-, with titles such as The Last Days, Schindler's List and Life Is Beautiful entering the mainstream. But this is not a film about the Holocaust per se; this is a film about people. It's a meandering, nine-and-a-half-hour film that never shows graphic pictures or delves into the political aspects of what happened in Europe in the 1930s and 40s but talks with survivors, with SS men, with those who witnessed the extermination of 6 million Jews.

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years tracking people down, cajoling them into talking, asking them questions they didn't want to face. When soldiers refuse to appear on film, Lanzmann sneaks cameras in. When people are on the verge of breaking down and can't answer any more questions, Lanzmann asks anyway. He gives names to the victims--driving through a town that was predominantly Jewish before Hitler's time, a local points out which Jews owned what. Lanzmann travels the world, speaking to workers in Poland, survivors in Israel, officers in Germany. He is not a detached interviewer; his probings are deeply personal. One man farmed the land upon which Treblinka was built. "Didn't the screams bother you?" Lanzmann asks. When the farmer seems to brush the issues aside with a smile, Lanzmann's fury is noticeable. "Didn't all this bother you?" he demands angrily, only to be told, "When my neighbour cuts his thumb, I don't feel hurt." The responses, the details are difficult to hear but critical nonetheless. Shoahtells the story of the most horrifying event of the 20th century, not chronologically and not with historical detail, but in an even more important way: person by person. --Jenny Brown

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the Finest Documentary, 11 Jul 2005

By	"steevo72" - See all my reviews

From the opening interviews right through to the train dissapearing into the distance at the end - this Documentary is the finest ever filmed. It brings together survivors and perpetrators and shows us moving images of the Camps in their present state (1985 - the time of the original release)
Mr Lanzmann is an unrelenting unstoppable interviewer.

One can never forget the Scenes of The Old Camp worker with his Pointing stick motioning proudly at his Diagram of Treblinka and the Train guard motioning that this would be the end of the line...

Recollections and accounts from guards survivors and civillians make this an incredible , engrossing film.

Shocking, Disturbing - this Film should be shown in every school studying this terrible era of History.

This documentary is Highly reccomended - I beleive it to be the greatest work of its type in the history of the world.

Take one viewing and Im sure you will agree.

Mr Lanzmann should be celebrated for such an incredible acheivement.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Immensely powerful! Required viewing on the Holocaust., 28 Jul 2004

By	M. D Roberts (Gwent, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Immensely powerful, disturbing, accurate and heart-rending. The most absorbing production relating to the Holocaust that I have seen.

Here the horrors of the Holocaust are presented by real people in real time. Holocaust survivors, their captors, torturers & executioners are all interviewed on camera.

Any detachment that the reader might have felt in reading books on the subject is destroyed as everything comes to life before your eyes. To actually see apparently 'ordinary' human beings who were responsible for such atrocities, speak about these events with such 'matter of fact', carefree abandon makes one's blood run cold.

This footage is all the more real to me, having personally visited most of the concentration camps referred to and having seen at first hand what is being referred to. Nevertheless, this footage will shock even the most hardened viewer & educate the least informed amongst us on the subject. It really is a 'must view' on the Holocaust.

It is quite lengthy, some 9 hours in all & with subtitles, yet this does not diminish from it's veracity and impact. It is such a shame that this production is not required viewing in our schools. We all need to be educated about this period in our not so recent history, before it happens again.

Recommended.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Immensely powerful! Required viewing on the Holocaust., 18 Nov 2002

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This review is from: Shoah [VHS] [1985] (VHS Tape)

Immensely powerful, disturbing, accurate and heart-rending. The most absorbing production relating to the Holocaust that I have seen.
Here the horrors of the Holocaust are presented by real people in real time. Holocaust survivors, their captors, torturers & executioners are all interviewed on camera.

Recommended.

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5.0 out of 5 stars SHOAH
I first saw this documentary/film in the 1980's it moved me to tear's then,and when I watched it again it had the same affect on me. Read more

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1.0 out of 5 stars The worst holocaust film ever made
I was appalled by this documentary. I thought it self-indulgent and amateurish. The holocaust deserves better treatment than this. Read more

Published on 16 Feb 2007 by Roger Clark

5.0 out of 5 stars Shoah: A Documentary of Human Nature
A mistake before watching Claude Lanzmann's `Shoah,' is to begin by thinking it is the epitome of Holocaust representation, that it isn't comparable with anything else. Read more

Published on 17 Jul 2006 by Mr. R. W. Jackson

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