Packet 10: Tossup 1

Many analyses of this film discuss its director’s concepts of “non-sites of memory” and the “incarnation” of silence, which are on display in a staged scene in which a barber remains silent for 90 seconds. This is the best-known film by a director who was the last editor of Les Temps Modernes (“lay tom moh-DAIRN”) and was the only man to cohabit with Simone de Beauvoir. The quote “I will give them an everlasting name” from the Book of Isaiah opens this film, whose first scene shows a boat on the Narew (“NAH-reff”) River where Szymon (*) Srebrnik (“SHEE-mon SREB-nik”) sings folk songs. (-5[1])This movie’s director (10[1])created five films, including The Karski Report, from the outtakes from its 12-year-long production, for which he interviewed 70 people in Germany, and (10[1])Poland (10[2])to film 300 hours (10[1])of footage. (10[1])For 10 (10[1])points, a word meaning “catastrophe” titles what nine-and-a-half hour long Claude Lanzmann documentary about the Holocaust? ■END■ (10[1])

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