Shoah (1985)

Documentary · History

Overview

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 as Self - Interviewer
• Simon Srebnik as Self
• Michael Podchlebnik as Self
• Motke Zaidl as Self
• Jan Karski as Self
• Paula Biren as Self
• Abraham Bomba as Self
• Inge Deutschkron as Self
• Ruth Elias as Self
• Richard Glazar as Self

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