
Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK Claude Lanzmann&s landmark documentary about the Holocaust Shoah alongside the four films he made through 2013 on the subject Lanzmann spent twelve years spanning the globe for surviving camp inmates SS commandants & eyewitnesses of the " Final Solution" Without dramatic re-enactment or archival footage but with extraordinary testimonies Shoah renders the step-by-step machinery of extermination & through haunted landscapes & human voices makes the past come brilliantly alive Shoah 1985 at 550 minutes is a work of genius alone an heroic endeavour to humanise the inhuman to tell the untellable & to explore in unprecedented detail the horrors of the past It is one of the most powerful & important & greatest films of all time A Visitor from the Living 1997 is based on an interview conducted by Lanzmann with Maurice Rossel during the filming of Shoah A member of the Berlin delegate for the International Committee of the Red Cross from 1942 Rossel was the only member of the organisation to have visited Auschwitz in 1943 & to have also paid a trip to the "model ghetto" of Theresienstadt in June 1944 Sobibór October 14 1943 4PM 2001 recounts the prisoner uprising that took place in the Sobibór death camp in Poland Only 50 prisoners ultimately evaded capture while the rest were sent to their murders in the gas chamber The Karski Report 2010 is Lanzmann&s brief film on Jan Karski the Polish resistance figure who also featured in the final section of Shoah & which recounts Karski&s powerful testimonial given to Franklin D Roosevelt & Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter on what he witnessed during a trip to the Warsaw Ghetto & to the extermination camp Belzec The Last of the Unjust 2013 at 218 minutes in length moves between 1975 & 2012 detailing Lanzmann&s mid-&70s Rome interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto & the filmmaker&s own return to the location 37 years later providing an unprecedented insight into the genesis of the " Final Solution" SPECIAL DIRECTOR APPROVED FOUR-DISC BLU-RAY BOXSET OF FIVE FILMS Optional English subtitles on all films 300-PAGE BOOK containing writing on all of the films by Stuart Liebman Aleksander Jousselin Laurence Giavarini & Emmanuel Burdeau; the transcript of a 1990 seminar with Claude Lanzmann; a chapters guide for Shoah; a gallery of the persons interviewed for Shoah; & a biography of Claude Lanzmann