Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah (2015)
Director: Adam Benzine | Country: UK / France | Runtime: 40 min | 🏆 Academy Award Winner — Best Documentary Short Subject (2016)
Synopsis
Shoah (1985) is widely considered one of the greatest documentaries ever made — a nine-and-a-half-hour interrogation of the Holocaust through survivor and perpetrator testimony, filmed over eleven years. Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah is director Adam Benzine’s intimate portrait of Lanzmann himself.
In a series of revelatory interviews, Lanzmann speaks about the making of Shoah with extraordinary candor: the interviews conducted under false pretenses, the hidden cameras, the moments of moral compromise that haunt him still.
Awards
- Academy Award — Winner, Best Documentary Short (2016)
- BAFTA — Nominated, Best Short Film
- Cannes Film Festival — Official Selection, Special Screenings
- Sundance Film Festival — Official Selection
- Hot Docs — Official Selection
Press
“A worthy companion to Shoah — intimate, rigorous, and deeply moving.”
— Variety