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Shoah

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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.

Date: 04/21/1985

Rating: 8.3

Cast: 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

Claude Lanzmann