Shoah
Plot
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.
At a glance
- Year
- 1985
- Runtime
- 566 min
- Age rating
- FSK 0
- Genre
- Documentary, History
- Original language
- French
- Production countries
- France
- Director
- Claude Lanzmann
- Cast
- Claude Lanzmann, Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl, Jan Karski