Shoah: Four Sisters - Part B

Even without a lot of cuts for time, each story is perfectly paced, and filled with little details that big-picture histories tend to miss.

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Shoah: Four Sisters - Part B

Claude Lanzmann's last film, The Four Sisters consists "of a 90-minute English-language interview with Auschwitz survivor Ruth Elias...offer[ing] the singular testimony of a woman who suffered unspeakable horrors at the hands of the Nazis and somehow made it out alive. Her lucidity about the experience, and her dignity in the face of disaster, are something to behold. It’s impossible to watch the film and not feel transformed afterwards. And even if Lanzmann has ostensibly made a documentary, his movie has the emotional impact and cinematic prowess of great drama." (Jordan Mintzer, Hollywood Reporter)

PART A features the stories of Ruth and Ida, PART B the stories of Hanna and Paula.

Both
Part A and B for single admission (double feature) if seen on the same day.

Re-admission: $6 with proof of purchase for the second half if seen on the subsequent day.

Not Rated
Genre
History, Jewish Culture, Fascism, Women and Film, Documentary
Runtime
132
Language
French, German, English, Hebrew
FEATURED REVIEW
Dave White, The Wrap

They aren’t sisters in a familial sense. But Ruth Elias, Ada Lichtman, Hanna Marton, and Paula Biren share a terrible kinship: They are the only people from their respective families to survive the Nazi Holocaust. In “Shoah: Four Sisters,” the latest and last film from director Claude Lanzmann — the ...

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