Shoah [Blu-ray]

Shoah Blu-ray is Claude Lanzmann's monumental and deeply influential documentary masterpiece, widely regarded as one of the most important films ever made. More than a decade in the making, this extraordinary work confronts the Holocaust through firsthand testimony, creating an unforgettable cinematic examination of memory, history and human experience.

Over a decade in the making, Claude Lanzmann's nine-hour-plus opus is a monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Lanzmann instead focuses on first-person testimonies from survivors, 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 of the ways in which the past is always present. A landmark achievement in documentary filmmaking, it remains one of the most essential cinematic works ever created.

Directed by: Claude Lanzmann
1985 / 566 min / French, Italian, Polish, German, English, Hebrew, Yiddish / 4 Discs

Film Info

• France
• 1985
• 566 minutes
• Color/Black and White
• 1.37:1
• French, Italian, Polish, German, English, Hebrew, Yiddish
• Spine #663