VHS / 1999
Country of Origin:
Title | Un vivant qui passe |
Item type | VHS |
Alternate title | Vistor from the living |
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Imprint | France [s.n.], 1999 |
Language | French |
URL | Link to original record |
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Physical description | 1 videocassette of 1 (65 min.) (Digital Betacam NTSC) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. |
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1999Publisher:
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LEADER 00000ngmaa2200529Ka 4500
001 610975266
003 OCoLC
005 20100504102742.0
007 vf czahou
008 100504s1999 fr 065 vlfre
035 (PFA-FILM)19430
040 CUY|beng|cCUY
245 03 Un vivant qui passe|h[videorecording] /|cla Sept-Arte ;
les Films Aleph ; MTM Cineteve ; produced and directed by
Claude Lanzmann.
246 3 Vistor from the living
257 France ; Germany.
260 France :|b[s.n.],|c[1999].
300 1 videocassette of 1 (65 min.) (Digital Betacam NTSC) :
|bsd., col. ;|c1/2 in.
500 Release title in the U.S.: A visitor from the living.
500 Release date and production credits taken from Internet
movie database.
506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating.|5CUY.
506 PFA 0504-01-14173. Restricted: For PFA exhibition only.
508 Cinematography, Dominique Chapuis, William Lubtcharnsky ;
editing, Sabine Mamou.
520 "Twenty years after he conducted the interviews that made
up the nine-hour film Shoah, Claude Lanzmann has begun
working with the material he did not include in that epic
documentary. The story of the concentration camp at
Theresienstadt was, as he says, "both central and
tangential" to the process of the extermination of the
Jews in Europe that Shoah documented. It is the focus of A
Visitor from the Living. Theresienstadt was a walled town
touted by the Nazis as a "model ghetto" for prominent,
assimilated, artistic, and above all high-profile Jews
from throughout Europe. Notwithstanding the music,
drawings, and poems clandestinely created there, it was a
transit point to Auschwitz and Treblinka, and was in fact
a concentration camp with its own horrors, and its own
ovens. In 1944 Theresienstadt was opened to Red Cross
inspectors, but only after a rigorous surface revamping
that included the planting of flowers, the training of
actors-and a mass deportation to Auschwitz. The question
that has always remained about Theresienstadt is, How
could the Red Cross have fallen for this ruse, this
cynical chicanery? Claude Lanzmann gives us a key to the
answer in A Visitor from the Living, a fascinating 1979
interview with Maurice Rossel, the Swiss head of the Red
Cross delegation that inspected Theresienstadt and gave
this death camp a passing grade, indeed, a clean bill of
health. (Previously, Rossel had snuck into Auschwitz, only
to produce a tepid report on his findings.) The answer we
get is tragically and trenchantly familiar, for it lies in
the very will of anti-Semitism that so deviously fuels
denial. Rossel, though he was duped, is no fool. Listen to
his words-words like "privileged Jews," "docility and
passivity." Watch his hesitations, his silences, and
glances at Lanzmann, whose interrogative weapons are a
passion for details and a broken heart. In order to
capture in the imagination something like the Holocaust,
Lanzmann has said, "one has to talk and be silent at the
same time"--Juliet Block, Pacific Film Archive film notes.
538 Digital Betacam NTSC.
650 0 Concentration camps|zCzech Republic.
650 0 World War, 1939-1945|xConcentration camps.
651 0 Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
655 7 Documentaries and factual works.|2mim
655 7 Features.|2mim
655 7 War documentaries.|2mim
690 French films.
700 1 Lanzmann, Claude,|edirection,|eproduction.
700 1 Chapuis, Dominique,|d1948-2001,|ecamera/lighting.
700 1 Lubtchansky, William,|ecamera/lighting.
700 1 Mamou, Sabine,|eediting.
700 1 Rossel, Maurice.
710 2 Sept/Arte (Firm)
710 2 Films Aleph.
710 2 MTM Cineteve.
941 0 PFA 0504-01-14173. PFA collection acquisition exhibition
2010/02/04
946 PFA 0504-01-14173. INV record created 2010/04/16 by pjs;
MIN record created 2010/05/03 by sw.
948 PFA 0504-01-14173. Restricted: For PFA exhibition only.
956 pfsw
956 20140224|bPFA migration/merge load
957 OCLC xref loaded 20140309
994 C0|bCUY