Shoah (1985)
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.
Top Cast
Claude Lanzmann
Self - Interviewer
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Simon Srebnik
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Michael Podchlebnik
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Motke Zaidl
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Jan Karski
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Paula Biren
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Abraham Bomba
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Inge Deutschkron
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Ruth Elias
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Richard Glazar
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Filip Müller
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Rudolf Vrba
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Raul Hilberg
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Hanna Zaïdl
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Jan Piwonski
Self
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