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Shoah (1985)
Directed by Claude Lanzmann
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.
Rated NR | Length 566 minutes
Actors
Claude Lanzmann | Simon Srebnik | Michael Podchlebnik | Motke Zaidl | Jan Karski | Paula Biren | Abraham Bomba | Inge Deutschkron | Ruth Elias | Richard Glazar | Filip Müller | Rudolf Vrba | Raul Hilberg | Hanna Zaïdl | Jan Piwonski | Itzhak Dugin | Helena Pietyra | Pan Filipowicz | Pan Falborski | Czeslaw Borowi | Henrik Gawkowski | Franz Suchomel | Joseph Oberhauser | Alfred Spiess | Franz Schalling | Martha Michelsohn | Moshe Mordo | Armando Aaron | Walter Stier | Franz Grassler | Gertude Schneider | Itzhak Zuckermann | Simha Rotem | Francine Kaufmann | Barbara Janicka | Mrs. Apfelbaum | Charlotte Hirschhorn