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Shoah
FRANCE · 1985

Shoah

Claude Lanzmann
good versus evil redemption and justice outsider as savior honor and code
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Synopsis

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.

Cinema Atlas Connection
How would I represent the present-day consequences of the genocide without representing the perpetrators? That’s what I learned from Lanzmann’s Shoah and Rithy Panh’s S21...
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This Film Influenced

→ Son of Saul (2015)