articles/Miroslaw Balka what Shoah means to me — theartnewspaper.com

"Real discussions around the Holocaust only began after communism collapsed in 1989" The Art Newspaper: What impact did “Shoah” have when it was first screened in Poland? Miroslaw Balka: It’s important to remember that when “Shoah” was made there was no internet. You could only watch films in the cinema, on TV (shown once), or videotape. As far as I know, the film wasn’t available on video. So I eventually bought it in the US on DVD in the early 2000s. So what was the impact? It hardly had one, because the film existed in a cloud that you couldn’t really see. Of course the situation in Poland was much worse because, under communism, the sources of information were very limited. Real discussions around the Holocaust only began after communism collapsed in 1989.

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