Shoah

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Director :

Claude Lanzmann

Cast :

Simon SrebnikMichael PodchlebnikMotke ZaidlJan KarskiPaula BirenAbraham BombaInge DeutschkronRuth EliasRichard GlazarFilip Müller

Genre :

DocumentaryHistory

Release :

1985-04-21

Description :

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.