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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Genres

Documentary, History

Language

FR

Release Date

1985-04-21

Runtime

566 min

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Cast

Claude Lanzmann

Simon Srebnik

Michael Podchlebnik

Motke Zaidl

Jan Karski

Paula Biren

Abraham Bomba

Inge Deutschkron

Ruth Elias

Richard Glazar