Word: lanzmann
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...critic Will Tremper headlined his review "Indiana Jones in the Krakow Ghetto." He excoriated Spielberg's vision as "pure Hollywood . . . the fantasies of a young boy from California who had never taken an interest in the Holocaust or the Jews before." Both critics were reflecting the view of Claude Lanzmann, director of the 1985 death-camp documentary Shoah. "It is seen from a very slanted angle, almost like an adventure story," Lanzmann wrote in London's Evening Standard. "Even if Spielberg believes that he has respected the historical truth, and I am sure he does, the general impression is distorting...