Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m.

Yehuda Lerner: Yehuda Lerner

Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 16 clock is a documentary by French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann from the year 2001.

On the questions of Claude Lanzmann answers Yehuda Lerner, one of the survivors of the uprising, to the pictures of the memorial with clear and simple words to his fate as a 16- year-old forced laborers in German Sobibor extermination camp (KZ) and his participation in the rebellion of Sobibor under the leadership of Alexander Pechersky on 14 October 1943. This date and the agreed time appear in the title of the film.

The film consists of two layers. The first level is the interview Lanzmann's with Lerner, which was filmed in 1979 in connection with the then -prepared film Shoah. Since the uprising in Sobibor was a large thing in itself, and Lerner had portrayed her very impressive to Lanzmann decided to devote a separate film. But it took years before he got the idea of ​​how he would make the resulting material a movie. In the fall of 2000, he turned the remaining material. There are views of Minsk in Belarus, a train journey to Sobibor, the station just there, but especially the environment which is a large forest area. You can also see the remains of the extermination camp. This later filmed material is usually used as interludes between the phases of the conversation, partly as an illustration, and gives the film one hand some rest, on the other hand, these images by their beauty a contrast to the actual topic.

The interview looks like that Lanzmann presents his questions from the off in French. In the picture, except Lerner always fleeting also a very savvy interpreter ( Francine Kaufmann) to see who translated his Hebrew versions into French. The interview was conducted on two days, the entire material had a length of more than 10 hours. There is a version with German subtitles.

The final sequence of the film about anderthalbminutige is dedicated to the victims of Sobibor and is a Kaddish modeled. To honor the memory of the deceased, they shall be called by their names. Since this is in the film not possible, on the one hand, because it would take too long, on the other hand, because only part of the name of the victim is known, Lanzman decides to name the names of the places from where the transports came to Sobibor. In the picture you can see one of the attached at the memorial stone tablets with the place name, and Lanzmann reads the name with the indication in English about the number of victims.