Volume 32, Number 20 · December 19, 1985
The Life of Death
By Timothy Garton Ash
Heimat
A film by Edgar Reitz
Shoah
A film by Claude Lanzmann
Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust
the complete text of the film by Claude Lanzmann, preface by Simone de Beauvoir
Pantheon, 200 pp., $11.95
When Light Pierced the Darkness: Righteous Christians and the Polish Jews
by Nechama Tec
Oxford University Press, 262 pp., $19.95
Two enormous films about subjects central to the history of our time. Claude Lanzmann's nine-and-a-half-hour-long film about the Holocaust has already opened in New York, after winning tremendous critical acclaim in France and stirring controversy in Poland. Edgar Reitz's even longer rendering of the German experience of the twentieth century has been hailed in Europe as one of the most important films to come out of Germany since the war, but it has not yet found a distributor in the United States.
Review, 8044 words
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