Shoah

Storyline

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

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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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