This is one of the most important films of the 20th century: it will last at 9:30 am, it should be seen at least once in his life

If it is naturally different in the form of fictional artwork, the emotional field opened by the documentary can be an absolutely devastating force. Because it echoes subjects of intimate, questions that have been deeply found and forcing us, our relationship, others, life. We also have our past, along with the mirror whose image can be as calm as rare cruelty. This is the Shah’s case.

At the cinematic level, several main works have made a decisive contribution to the memory of the destruction of Jews in Europe, not only in France but also abroad. It was an extraordinary and immense night and fog in 1955, from Allen Rheus, and of course, from Claude Lanzman’s film, published in 1985.

The work is so important that it works as an absolute reference to this topic. Eleven year old work, at 9:30 am the birth of the monument in two parts. With its historical scale and intellectual severity, it is one of the most important cinematic production of the 20th century.

Witnesses and performers at the head

In one Parisian room in the Latin district, Shoa is fascinated and confused by the viewer. Very word, Shoa, “disaster” in Hebrew, is unknown in France.

In 1973, Claude Lanzman was charged by an Israeli Foreign Ministry friend to start a feature film on the destruction of European Jews during World War II. But the length of the project was such that there were other sources of funding, including the French government.

Unlike most documentaries, Shoa returns, without a single archival document, the destruction of the Nazis by European Jews as the testimony of the executives and the victim. “I chose the protagonists who could repeat it and repeat it.” The director trusted the release of the film.

From 1974 to 1981, Lanzman will travel the world to look for these testimonies. Even more precious to some, as we see on the screen, could not talk about this tragedy, if not, after it happened. Confessions are sometimes collected with a hidden camera so as not to doubt.

A five -year -old gathering

Especially portrayed in a study by historian Raul Hilberg, which was the first time in a reconstructive colossal synthesis, the overall process of the genocide committed by the Jews during World War II, during all its political, technical, administrative and human aspects, will take 350 hours.

In fact, it is such a rich and dense material that it will be used to create later documentaries. Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.

Finally, in 2018, four sisters, four surviving portraits of Nazi barbarism. The release of this film (in two parts) will be further for its author who died in July 2018. Are covered in the prices of the world, Registered in the UNESCO “World Memory” RegisterShe has to see the show at least once in her life.