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| Lanzmann, left, with Benjamin Murmelstein in 1975, in a still from The Last of the Unjust |
French
producer-director Claude Lanzmann, author of the singularly
penetrating memoir “The
Patagonian Hare” visited Seville this week.
As
the creator of Shoah,
the 9-hour documentary
(which was the result of over ten years of research and filming
testimonies
of survivors
from the Nazi's extermination of Jews across Europe)
Lanzmann was honoured yesterday at the Andalucian city's film
festival.
His
new movie is titled “The Last of the Unjust.” It is about
Benjamin Murmelstein, the Jewish Council president in Theresienstadt
ghetto, the concentration camp in the city of Terezín (in the
modern-day Czech Republic.) who collaborated
with the Nazis,
a man who Lanzmann said
he actually “grew to love.”
“The
Last of the Unjust” will be released in Spain on January 10.
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