A VISITOR FROM THE LIVING

A film by Claude LANZMANN

status : completed

Un Vivant Qui Passe, is a film based on a 1979 interview between Claude Lanzmann and Maurice Rossel, delegate for the International Committee of the Red Cross, who visited Eichman’s model ghetto, Theresienstadt, in June 1944. In his report on the visit, Rossel described conditions in the camp as “satisfactory”. The portrait of a rare witness to the Holocaust: neither victim nor executioner, but living among the dead.