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6:00 PM, EAT
SHOAH
Film screenings|4-part Screening of Claude Lanzmann´s monumental epic on the Holocaust features interviews with survivors, bystanders and perpetrators across 14 countries.
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Goethe-Institut, Auditorium
- Language English
- Price Free
Twelve years in the making, Claude Lanzmann’s monumental epic on the Holocaust features interviews with survivors, bystanders and perpetrators across 14 countries. The film contains no historical footage. Instead, it uses interviews and revisits the sites where the crimes were committed by Germans and their local aides.
It stemmed from Lanzmann’s concern that the genocide, committed only 40 years earlier, was already fading from memory and that atrocity was being sanitised. His monumental work – both epic and intimate, immediate and definitive – is a triumph of form and content, uncovering hidden truths while redefining documentary filmmaking. The film recounts the annihilation of six million European Jews during the Second World War and gave the event the name that today is used in many countries: the Shoah.
On 30th, the screening will be followed by a conversation.
It stemmed from Lanzmann’s concern that the genocide, committed only 40 years earlier, was already fading from memory and that atrocity was being sanitised. His monumental work – both epic and intimate, immediate and definitive – is a triumph of form and content, uncovering hidden truths while redefining documentary filmmaking. The film recounts the annihilation of six million European Jews during the Second World War and gave the event the name that today is used in many countries: the Shoah.
On 30th, the screening will be followed by a conversation.