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Shoah

Shoah

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 21, 1985

Runtime

9h 26m

Genres

Documentary, History

User Score

83%

Original Title

Shoah

Production Companies

Historia, Les Films Aleph, Ministère de la culture

Director

Claude Lanzmann

Revenue

$20,175

Description

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.