Release Date
1985-04-21
Status
Released
Original Title
Shoah
Runtime
9h 26m
Revenue
$20,175
Original Language
FR
Production Countries
France
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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