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Shoah
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Title: Shoah

Release Date: 21 Apr 1985

Runtime: 9h 26m

Genre: Documentary, History

Director: Historia, Les Films Aleph, Ministère de la culture

Production Companies: Historia, Les Films Aleph, Ministère de la culture

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.

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Average Vote: 8.3 (196 votes)

Cast

  • Self - Interviewer: Claude Lanzmann
  • Self: 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
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