Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m.
NYFF: Opening Act
September 20 - 26, 2013
More than just an epilogue to Shoah, Claude Lanzmann’s interview with a Holocaust survivor named Yehuda Lerner about the uprising at Sobibor, a Nazi extermination in eastern Poland, is a rebuttal to the dominant mythology of Jewish acquiescence and martyrdom.
Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. is comprised primarily of an interview Lanzmann conducted in 1979 with a Holocaust survivor named Yehuda Lerner about the uprising at Sobibor, a Nazi extermination camp in eastern Poland, the only successful Jewish-prisoner insurrection of the war. This film isn’t just an epilogue to Shoah, it’s a rebuttal to the dominant mythology of Jewish acquiescence and martyrdom, and as such, a critique of turning history into the comforts of fiction. It’s historiography with a vengeance. —Manohla Dargis, Film Comment, July/August 2001
Claude Lanzmann's new film The Last of the Unjust is screening in the Main Slate of the 51st New York Film Festival.
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