Shoah (VF + 4 films) (1985)
de Claude Lanzmann
Criterion - 15 septembre 2026
Titre Original :
Audio : French: LPCM Mono (48kHz, 24-bit)
Sous-titres : English
Durée : 1h56
Format : Blu-ray
DigiPack / includes: "A Visitor from the Living" (1999), "Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m." (2001), "The Karski Report" (2010), and "All I Had Was Nothingness" (2025) / import US
Zone : A
Genre : Historique, Documentaire, Guerre
Synopsis
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 Chełmno 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.
Bonus
- 2K digital restoration with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Three additional films by director Claude Lanzmann: A Visitor from the Living (1999, 68 minutes); Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001, 102 minutes); and The Karski Report (2010, 49 minutes)
- Conversation between Lanzmann and critic Serge Toubiana
- Interview with Lanzmann from 2003 about A Visitor from the Living and Sobibór
- Interview with Caroline Champetier, assistant cameraperson on Shoah, and filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin
- All I Had Was Nothingness (2025), a new film by Guillaume Ribot, edited from previously unreleased footage and recounting the production of Shoah
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones and writings by Lanzmann