Shoah: Four Sisters is a title in the documentary genre offered here on DVD from Cohen Media Group. It is listed as not rated (NR), so check the content yourself before a family movie night. Owning the disc keeps the film on your shelf even when it leaves streaming services, and it plays in DVD and Blu-ray players alike. Physical media also makes a simple gift for film fans who like to own what they watch. Fans of documentary can find more titles like this in our movie section. Quick facts: title Shoah: Four Sisters; format DVD; rating NR; genre Documentary; studio/label Cohen Media Group.
Starting in 1999, Claude Lanzmann made several films that could be considered satellites of SHOAH, comprised of interviews conducted in the 1970s that didn't make it into the final, monumental work. In the last years of the late director's life, he decided to devote a film to four women from four different areas of Eastern Europe with four different destinies, each finding herself improbably alive after war's end: Ruth Elias from Ostravia, Czechoslovakia; Paula Biren from Lodz, Poland; Ada Lichtman from further south in Krakow; and Hannah Marton from Cluj, or Kolozsva'r, in Transylvania. Survivors of unimaginable Nazi horrors during the Holocaust, they tell their individual stories and become crucial witnesses to the barbarism they experienced. Each possesses a vivid intelligence and a commitment to candor that make their accounts of what they suffered through both searing and unforgettable. Four Sisters now arrives on the screen to remind audiences of the immense courage it took for these witnesses to return to their past as they share their deeply moving personal tragedies. The frankness of their words, their intensely scrutinized faces, and their bravery as they revisit unimaginable experiences will make them lasting presences in the moral universe of younger generations.
- Label: COHEN MEDIA GROUP
- MPAA Rating: NR
- Genre: DOCUMENTARY
