A Visitor from the Living

HAIFA DOCS

Archive - Festival 41

Rossel is easy to despise and easier to mock, but the cold light of his detachment serves as a reminder of the tyrannical deceits

The New Yorker
  • Archive - Festival 41
  • Director: Claude Lanzmann
  • France, Germany 1997
  • 65 minutes
  • French
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

A Visitor from the Living is a documentary based on a 1979 interview between Claude Lanzmann and Maurice Rossel, a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross, who visited Eichmann's model ghetto, Theresienstadt, in June 1944. In his visit report, Rossel described the conditions in the camp as “satisfactory.” This is the portrait of a rare witness to the Shoah—neither victim nor executioner, but a man living among the dead.

“A film about ordinary antisemitism, a film about the difficulty of witnessing history when you have been a victim of your own blindness” - Paul Fontaines, Les Inrocks.

Filmography: The Last of the Unjust (2013), The Karski Report (2010), Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001), Tsahal (1994), Shoah (1985), Why Israel (1973).


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  • Director Claude Lanzmann
  • Production Claude Lanzmann
  • Script Claude Lanzmann
  • Cinematography Dominique Chapuis, William Lubtchansky
  • Editing Sabine Mamou
  • Participants Maurice Rossel, Claude Lanzmann
  • Source Lev Cinemas