Shoah (1985)
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.
- Date of release
- 1985-04-21
- TMDB
- 8.2 / 10 (228)
- Runtime
- 9h 26m
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Director
- Claude Lanzmann
Casting
- Claude Lanzmann — Self - Interviewer
- Simon Srebnik — Self
- Michael Podchlebnik — Self
- Motke Zaidl — Self
- Jan Karski — Self
- Paula Biren — Self
- Abraham Bomba — Self
- Inge Deutschkron — Self
- Ruth Elias — Self
- Richard Glazar — Self
- Filip Müller — Self
- Rudolf Vrba — Self
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