Shoah

1985 · 566 min · ★ 8.2 / 10 · 228 votes

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Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.

Cast

Claude Lanzmann · Simon Srebnik · Michael Podchlebnik · Motke Zaidl · Jan Karski · Paula Biren · Abraham Bomba · Inge Deutschkron · Ruth Elias · Richard Glazar

Director

Claude Lanzmann