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Shoah (1985)

Shoah (1985)

History Documentary
Release Date: 1985, April 21
Directors: Claude Lanzmann
Countries: France
Production: Historia, Les Films Aleph, Ministère de la culture, Ministère de la culture
Cast: Simon Srebnik, Raul Hilberg, Francine Kaufmann, Alfred Spiess, Inge Deutschkron, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl, Jan Karski, Paula Biren, Abraham Bomba, Ruth Elias, Richard Glazar

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.

Keywords:

world war ii holocaust (shoah) history of mankind history and legacy historical documentary