Documentary telling the story of the world's craziest race.
In 1977, French motorcyclist Thierry Sabine was in serious trouble, lost in the Libyan desert and dying from thirst. Whilst most men would weep and think back over their lives, Thierry thought about coming back - to do a rally across the Sahara Desert. The 9,000km Paris-Dakar rally was born.
The rally became a beacon for eccentric adventurers battling the terrain in customised vehicles, seduced by the romance of the desert and the extreme challenge. It soon became a victim of its own rapid success. Caught up in controversy and with over 60 deaths, in 2008 this incredible event was brought to an end in Africa by terrorism.
Featuring winners Cyril Neveu, Hubert Auriol, Jean-Louis Schlesser, Ari Vatanen, Stephane Peterhansel, Martine de Cortanze, former participant Sir Mark Thatcher and many more, this is the story of the biggest motorsport event the world has ever seen and one of the greatest challenges of human endeavour ever conceived, told by those who took part.
How the west took on a landscape of incredible beauty and scale. And lost.
地点:特莱西恩施塔特,一个独特的被阿道夫·艾希曼称为“模范集中营”而宣传的地方,隐藏着其真实面目——毒气室前的最后一步而误导着世界和犹太人民。一个男人:本杰明·穆勒斯坦因,特莱西恩施塔特犹太议会的最后一任主席,被流放的落难英雄,从1938年至战争结束期间被迫与艾希曼日复一日地谈判,而到了艾希曼被审判之日却甚至没有被传唤作证,尽管他无疑是最了解这位纳粹死刑执行者的人。距离《浩劫》超过二十五年,克劳德·朗兹曼的新作展现了纳粹大屠杀鲜为人知却意义重大的一面,并前所未有地揭示了“最终方案”的起源。
A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the last step before the gas chamber. A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council, a fallen hero condemned to exile, who was forced to negotiate day after day from 1938 until the end of the war with Eichmann, to whose trial Murmelstein wasn't even called to testify. Even though he was without a doubt the one who knew the Nazi executioner best. More than twenty-five years after Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's new film reveals a little-known yet fundamental aspect of the Holocaust, and sheds light on the origins of the "Final Solution" like never before.