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Much of the impact of these devices was achieved during the five years spent by Mr. Lanzmann in editing his images. Prior to that, he had spent seven years shooting, partly because he was four years old in the project when, during his first visit to Treblinka, he encountered things that forced me to leave from zero.
In his autobiography. The Patagonian Hare, "made available in English translation in 2012, Mr. Lanzmann wrote:" I had not wanted to come to Poland, I arrived full of arrogance, and convinced that I was only coming to confirm that I did not need to come. "But at Treblinka station," the passage from myth to reality occurred in a blinding flash, the meeting of a name and a place erased everything I had learned. "
That day He began working steadily, an emergency fever, questioning city dwellers about their memories of the years of the death camp, gathering minute details about the arrival and landing of the drunk wagons. condemned souls, and the ever-present smell of charred flesh and rotting corpses in mass graves.He finally realized the real subject of his film: "Death itself."
Mr. Lanzmann was a He rejected the word "holocaust" – literally "holocaust" – as a description of the genocide and denounced his "commodification" in such films as "Schindler's List." Polish anti-Semitism was an "essential condition" of the Indeed, the absence of anything in "Shoah" that would better put the Poles led the Warsaw government to demand the ban of the film after its premiere in Paris
" Shoah "was Mr. Lanzmann's second film, after" Why Israel "(1973). He continued to make important films until his death, drawn from the vast treasure of "Shoah". "The Karski Report" (2010) recounted the futile efforts of Polish Resistance hero Jan Karski, whom Lanzmann had long questioned to warn the Allies of what was happening to Jews in Europe. For Lanzmann, the film was intended as a furious response to a young French novelist who had dared to appropriate, according to the filmmaker, the heroic figure of M.Karski
"The Last of Unjust". Last of the Unjust ") was a devastating 2013 film about betrayal, complicity and survival centered on the figure of Rabbi Benjamin Murmelstein, who had been a member of the board of the Theresienstadt Nazi show-camp. This year, Mr. Lanzmann published "Shoah: The Four Sisters" in France, the powerful testimony of four women who survived the Holocaust
. Lanzmann was a dominant, virulent and cantankerous figure in life French intellectual and public for many years.He was a leftist who advised the dying socialist president Francois Mitterrand, and a critic of colonialism who also defended Israel.A man with overflowing appetites of Balzac, he was a "filmmaker who made a novel out of his life, "reads a daily newspaper Le Monde on Thursday.
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