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Shoah

Shoah

1985•9h 26m•8.2/10
DocumentaryHistory

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8.2/10(215)

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.

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Production

Historia, Les Films Aleph, Ministère de la culture

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Claude Lanzmann

Claude Lanzmann

Self - Interviewer

Simon Srebnik

Self

Michael Podchlebnik

Self

Motke Zaidl

Self

Jan Karski

Self

Paula Biren

Self

Abraham Bomba

Self

Inge Deutschkron

Self

Ruth Elias

Self

Richard Glazar

Self

Filip Müller

Self

Rudolf Vrba

Self

Raul Hilberg

Self

Hanna Zaïdl

Self

Jan Piwonski

Self

Itzhak Dugin

Self

Helena Pietyra

Self

Pan Filipowicz

Self

Pan Falborski

Self

Czeslaw Borowi

Self

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