Delay, Estrangement, Loss: The Meanings of Translation in Claude Lanzmann's Shoah (1985)

Claude Lanzmann’s The Four Sisters (2017) on Television

“…The translator's absence renders Marton's testimony more 'fluid' and suitable for television broadcast, in Kaufmann's approving description of her own removal. 38 Despite these radical changes, the director's critical view of the rescue's selective nature seems evident, even if his scepticism has the effect of increasing our sense of there being no other options. The interview's title, 'Noah's Ark', like that of 'The Hippocratic Oath,' is inflected with historical irony.…”