Seeing and its Rearticulations in the Reception

Abstract

In this paper I analyze the multiple possibilities of intellectual and emotional reception of one of the scenes of Lanzmann’s masterpiece. Jan Karski recounts in this scene his two journeys in the Warsaw Ghetto. My question is: how his primary seeing could be received in the sensitivity of the spectator of the cinema to graphic art work. I am considering the possible emotional and intellectual reactions to the words and the images of the movie.