In person: Claude Lanzmann
Recording Date: (October 14, 2007)
Original Format: MiniDV
On October 14, 2007, the Film Museum staged the first ever public screening of previously unreleased interview footage shot in Rome in 1975 by the French documentary filmmaker Claude Lanzmann (1925–2018) during preparations for his seminal work, Shoah (1985), with the exiled Viennese rabbi Benjamin Murmelstein (*1905; †1989). Following the screening, Lanzmann - who has since worked the footage into a four-hour documentary, Le Dernier des injustes (The Last of the Unjust) (2013) - spoke with Film Museum curator Michael Loebenstein about his experience with the controversial Holocaust figure. (In French & German
