Shoah (1985)
Kernel Score: 90% · 217 ratings
Genres: Documentary, History
Released: 1985-04-21
Runtime: 566 minutes
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.
Director
Cast
- Claude Lanzmann as Self - Interviewer
- Simon Srebnik as Self
- Michael Podchlebnik as Self
- Motke Zaidl as Self
- Jan Karski as Self
- Paula Biren as Self
- Abraham Bomba as Self
- Inge Deutschkron as Self
- Ruth Elias as Self
- Richard Glazar as Self