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The Patagonian Hare by Claude Lanzmann review

The director of landmark Holocaust documentary Shoah was transformed after discovering his Jewish roots.

By Steven Sedley In Books

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9th June, 2012
A quarter-century ago, Shoah, a nine-and-a-half-hour film about the Holocaust, was screened at a film festival. It was a film like no other. There were no voice-overs, no explanations, no archive footage; just searching questions, disturbing answers and peaceful, at times beautiful, scenery, incongruous with the subject matter. Claude Lanzmann spent 12 years making this film. He was a renowned journalist, editor of Les Temps Modernes, the influential literary magazine founded by Jean-Paul Sartre. He was a friend of leading writers and philosophers of his generation, especially ...

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