Shoah

Shoah — Plot

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.

• Release date
• April 21, 1985
• Runtime
• 566 min
• Genres
• Documentary, History
• Director
• Claude Lanzmann

Shoah — Cast

Claude Lanzmann Self - Interviewer

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Simon Srebnik Self

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Michael Podchlebnik Self

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Motke Zaidl Self

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Jan Karski Self

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Paula Biren Self

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Abraham Bomba Self

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Inge Deutschkron Self