Shoah

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.

Country:

FR

Genre:

Documentary, History

Released:

1985-04-21

Languages:

Polish, German, French, Hebrew, Yiddish, English

Companies:

HistoriaLes Films AlephMinistère de la culture