Claude Lanzmann – MRQE

Hôtel Terminus

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Winner of a Best Documentary Academy Award, Marcel Ophuls’ riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed “The Butcher of Lyon.” Responsible for over 4,000 deaths in occupied France during World War II, Barbie would escape–with U.S. help–to South America in 1951, where he lived until a global manhunt led to his 1983 arrest and subsequent trial.

Je n’avais que le néant – Shoah par Lanzmann

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Forty years after the release of Claude Lanzmanns monumental film Shoah, Guillaume Ribot reveals the directors relentless pursuit to tell the untold, using only Lanzmanns words and unseen footage from the masterpiece.

Le Rapport Karski (TV)

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A powerful new film about Jan Karski, the Polish resistance figure who attempted to expose the Warsaw Ghetto and Belzec, and met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.

Napalm

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Napalm is the story of the breathtaking and brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the first Western European delegation officially invited to North Korea after the devastating Korean war and a nurse working for the Korean Red Cross hospital, in Pyongyang, capital of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.

Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The process of making Shoah.

The Last of the Unjust

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the “model ghetto”, designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the last step before the gas chamber. A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council, a fallen hero condemned to exile, who was forced to negotiate day after day from 1938 until the end of the war with Eichmann, to whose trial Murmelstein wasn’t even called to testify. Even though he was without a doubt the one who knew the Nazi executioner best. More than twenty-five years after Shoah, Claude Lanzmann’s new film reveals a little-known yet fundamental aspect of the Holocaust, and sheds light on the origins of the “Final Solution” like never before.

Un vivant qui passe

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An interview with a WWII Red Cross official who wrote a glowing report on a Jewish ghetto-cum-death camp.

Tsahal

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The ideologies underlying the foundation of modern Israel are explored in this documentary, the third of a trilogy (created over a twenty year span) exploring the Jewish experience. The two earlier documentaries, “Porquoi Israel,” and “Shoah,” have had great effect on the ways documentaries are produced. “Tsahal” zeroes in on the crucial role of the military in Israeli society and politics. The film uses many in-depth interviews to present the many feelings and thoughts about the Israeli military.

Shoah

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Claude Lanzmann directed this 9½ hour documentary on the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage. He interviews survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis (whom he had to film secretly since they only agreed to be interviewed by audio). His style of interviewing, by asking for the most minute details, is effective at adding up these details to give a horrifying portrait of the events of Nazi genocide. He also shows, or rather lets some of his subjects show, that the anti-Semitism that caused 6 million Jews to die in the Holocaust is still alive and well in many people who still live in Germany, Poland, and elsewhere.

Pourquoi Israel

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Using interviews and other footage shot especially for this documentary, French director Claude Lanzmann investigates the state of Israel in 1972. This movie concentrates on Israelis going about their business of everyday living.