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Shoah, four sisters, Arte France & Synecdoche presentent avec la participation du Centre National de la Cinematographie ; un film de Claude Lanzmann ; produit par David Frenkel

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Shoah

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Arte France & Synecdoche presentent avec la participation du Centre National de la Cinematographie ; un film de Claude Lanzmann ; produit par David Frenkel

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four sisters

A continuation of director Claude Lanzmann's award-winning documentary masterpiece Shoah, comprised of interviews conducted with four women who survived the Holocaust, each finding herself improbably alive after war's end. It is presented as a two-part theatrical release"Starting in 1999, Claude Lanzmann made several films that could be considered satellites of SHOAH, comprised of interviews conducted in the 1970s that didn't make it into the final, monumental work. In the last years of the late director's life, he decided to devote a film to four women from four different areas of Eastern Europe with four different destinies, each finding herself improbably alive after war's end: Ruth Elias from Ostravia, Czechoslovakia; Paula Biren from Lodz, Poland; Ada Lichtman from further south in Krakow; and Hannah Marton from Cluj, or Kolozsvár, in Transylvania. Survivors of unimaginable Nazi horrors during the Holocaust, they tell their individual stories and become crucial witnesses to the barbarism they experienced. Each possesses a vivid intelligence and a commitment to candor that make their accounts of what they suffered through both searing and unforgettable"--, from container

Titles from DVD menu: Disc 1. The Hippocratic oath (Ruth Elias) -- The merry flea (Ada Lichtman) -- Disc 2. Noah's ark (Hannah Marton) -- Baluty (Paula Biren)Titles from opening credits: Disc 1. Le Serment D'Hippocrate -- La Puce Joyeuse -- Disc 2. L'Arche de Noe -- Baluty

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Four sistersQuatre soeurs