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SHOAH - 25th Anniversary Screening

Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive

January 21-January 24, 2011

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Shoah is a film about the destruction of European Jews during the Second World War. My ambition was to create a cinematic work that would bring this main event in recent history back to life in all its gravity. The work should itself be appropriate to the event. Instead of restricting myself to certain chapters or episodes of extermination of the Jews in Europe, I made up my mind to record the destruction in whole, in its gigantic dimensions and with all its traces, whose consequences we live with today. It is a monumental film, both for its length and the number of individuals and the diversity of the topics it covers. ‹Claude Lanzmann In 1985, French journalist and filmmaker Claude Lanzmann (b. 1925) premiered the nine-hour documentary that marks a turning point both in discussion of the Nazi's attempt to exterminate Europe's Jews and in the history of non-fiction filmmaking. The film's monumental length matches its intellectual ambitions as well as the scope of the subject matter. Lanzmann deliberately turns away from spectacle towards a strategy that relies instead of presenting the remnants and echoes of past events, events whose victims were meant to disappear without a trace. He began three years of research for the film in 1973, followed by ten periods of shooting spread over six years. This program is presented in conjunction with The Boston Jewish Film Festival. Members of the Festival will receive a $2 discount off the price of admission. Special thanks: Sara Rubin‹Boston Jewish Film Festival; Susan Suleiman‹the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard; Ryan Werner, Jonathan Hertzberg‹IFC Films.