Shoah director passes away

FRENCH director Claude Lanzmann, pictured, whose nine-hour masterpiece Shoah bore witness to the Holocaust through the testimonies of Jewish victims, German executioners and Polish bystanders, has died aged 92.

The power of Shoah, filmed in the 1970s during Lanzmann’s trips to the Polish landscapes where the slaughter of Jews was planned and executed, was in viewing the Holocaust as an event in the present, rather than as history.