Movie

Shoah

★ 8.2/10 · 226 votes 1985 9h 26m Released

DocumentaryHistory

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 Self - Interviewer S Simon Srebnik Self M Michael Podchlebnik Self M Motke Zaidl Self J Jan Karski Self P Paula Biren Self