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Documentary, History - 1985
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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:
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Claude Lanzmann
Cast:
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Claude Lanzmann
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Jan Karski
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Simon Srebnik
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Michael Podchlebnik
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Motke Zaidl
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Paula Biren
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Abraham Bomba

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Details

Runtime:
566 min
Release date:
21 Apr 1985
Country:
FR
Languages:
Yiddish, Hebrew (modern), German, French, Polish, English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$20,175
Awards:
Won 2 BAFTA 15 wins total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
With his 9 1/2-hour Shoah, Claude Lanzmann has accomplished the seemingly impossible: He has brought such beauty to his recounting of the horror of the Holocaust that he has made it accessible and comprehensible.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Jun 2014
fresh:
By straightforwardly presenting interviews with people who lived through the Holocaust, Lanzmann makes it real again. Even more impressively, he helps us to see how the horror could have happened.
– Jay Boyar,
Orlando Sentinel,
3 Jun 2014
fresh:
Shoah is the greatest use of film in motion picture history, taking movies to their highest moral value. For what director/interviewer Lanzmann has done on film is nothing less than revive history, a history so ugly that many would prefer to forget.
– Gene Siskel,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Jun 2014
fresh:
[It] has transcended the cinema to become a primary record of the extermination of European Jews during the Second World War.
– Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
19 Mar 2012
fresh:
Why revisit "Shoah'' 25 years after it was first released? Because it matters more a quarter century on, just as it will matter even more in a hundred years, and 200, and - if it and we survive - a thousand.
– Ty Burr,
Boston Globe,
20 Jan 2011
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