Shoah and 4 Films After Shoah by Claude Lanzmann: Shoah (1985), A Visitor from the Living (1999), Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001), The Karski Report (2010), The Last of the Unjust (2013) 4 x Blu-Ray and 6 x DVD9 Eureka – Masters of Cinema

To write a review of a film such as Shoah seems an impossible task: how to sum up one of the most powerful discourses on film in such a way as to make people realise that this is a documentary of immense consequence, a documentary that is not easy to watch but important to watch, a documentary that not only records the facts but bears witness. We are commanded "Never forget"; this film helps us to fulfil that mandate, reverberating with the viewer long after the movie has ended. Yes, Holocaust films are plentiful, both fictional and non-, with titles such as The Last Days, Schindler's List and Life Is Beautiful entering the mainstream. But this is not a film about the Holocaust per se; this is a film about people. It's a meandering, nine-and-a-half-hour film that never shows graphic pictures or delves into the political aspects of what happened in Europe in the 1930s and 40s but talks with survivors, with SS men, with those who witnessed the extermination of 6 million Jews.

The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Claude Lanzmann's landmark documentary about the Holocaust, Shoah, alongside the four films he made through 2013 on the subject.

Director: Claude Lanzmann
Country: France, UK
Genre: Documentary, History, War
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