Shoah (1985)

FrenchFilm1985566 minDocumentary, History★ 8.2/10

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.

Directed by

Claude Lanzmann

Starring

Claude Lanzmann, Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik

Released

1985-04-21

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