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Claude Lanzmann, the Jewish-French director who made "Shoah", died Thursday at the age of 92.
"Shoah" is widely regarded as one of the most important documentaries on the Holocaust, if not the most important. The film took 11 years in Lanzmann and it lasted nine hours.
Haaretz film critic, Uri Klein, wrote in 2015, on the occasion of the film's 30th anniversary, that "Shoah" was one of the most important films ever made.
"Holocaust" changed the debate on the link between cinema and the memory of the Holocaust, Klein writes. "This was the first film to show archive documents from the concentration camps (contrasted by the color photos of Auschwitz and Majdanek in the present), but this film was also problematic: the word" Jew " has never been heard on the soundtrack. "
"Lanzmann's most radical step in" Shoah ", an unprecedented move in a documentary on the Holocaust, was his renunciation of archiving," Klein continued. "Holocaust" documented the procedures of the murder industry; it was established in the present by filming the sites where the Holocaust took place, as well as interviews with survivors. "
Lanzmann himself did not see "Shoah" as a documentary. In 2015, at a masterclbad at the Haifa International Film Festival, Judy Maltz reported that when a viewer was referring to her best-known documentary, Lanzmann replied, "I want to be kind to you, but if you use this word documentary once again to describe "Shoah", I will hit you. "
He then clarified why "Shoah" was not a documentary. "In a documentary, you remember something that already existed," he said. "But in" Shoah ", nothing has pre-existed."
Her other films include "Israel, why?" (1973) and "IDF" (1994), who attempt to understand Israel in the context of the Holocaust. He also published a memoir, "The Patagonian Hare", earlier this decade.
Speaking with Ari Shavit in Israel in 2011, he was asked if Hitler was ultimately victorious over the Jews. "Yes, Hitler was victorious because the 6 million dead will not come back, they died forever," Lanzmann said.
"Hitler was also victorious in another way," he added, "it would have been possible to badume that, after what happened, anti-Semitism would disappear. But that did not happen. Anti-Semitism is back. It's like a hydra – when you cut one of its heads, other heads appear immediately.
"But in a way, Hitler was not victorious – the state of Israel exists," he added. "People who have not lived in the past, and especially the Israelis who have not lived in the past, do not understand this amazing achievement, the existence of the state Israel is also changing the way the world views Jews and Jews, and contrary to what many people think, this state is an exemplary state with an incredible army. Israel is a tremendous victory over Hitler. "
The director's death was confirmed by his family in the French newspaper Le Monde.
RIP #ClaudeLanzmann . The most ferocious (and the most cantankerous) man I've ever met. I asked him what he thought of Saramago's comparison between Gaza and Auschwitz. He bit my head and spit it out.
Shoah is an absolute masterpiece of human endeavor.
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