The Last of the Unjust
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Special introduction by  Bruno Chaouat, Chair of the Dept. of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota.

Claude Lanzmann returns to a series of interviews he made in 1975 with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto. Murmelstein was largely demonized after the war, accused of collaborating with the Nazis, with his survival being the proof. These interviews, however, tell a different story—one of a pragmatic man who fought not only for his own survival but also the survival of every Jew he could possibly help. A powerful addendum to Lanzmann’s masterpiece Shoah, The Last of the Unjust employs an unadorned style for an incredibly complicated historical narrative that continues to be defined today.

Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, CPH: DOX.