Serge Toubiana
1) Shoah
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (566 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (60 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Description
Over a decade in the making, this monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Claude Lanzmann instead focuses on first-person testimonies (of survivors and former Nazis, and other witnesses), employing a circular, free-associative method in assembling them. The intellectual yet emotionally overwhelming Shoah is not a film about excavating the past but an intensive portrait...