Shoah
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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Cast
Claude Lanzmann
Simon Srebnik
Michael Podchlebnik
Motke Zaidl
Jan Karski
Paula Biren
Abraham Bomba
Inge Deutschkron
Ruth Elias
Richard Glazar
Filip Müller
Rudolf Vrba
Raul Hilberg
Hanna Zaïdl
Jan Piwonski
Itzhak Dugin
Helena Pietyra
Pan Filipowicz
Pan Falborski
Czeslaw Borowi
Henrik Gawkowski
Franz Suchomel
Joseph Oberhauser
Alfred Spiess
Franz Schalling
Martha Michelsohn
Moshe Mordo
Armando Aaron
Walter Stier
Franz Grassler
Gertude Schneider
Itzhak Zuckermann
Simha Rotem
Francine Kaufmann
Barbara Janicka
Mrs. Apfelbaum
Charlotte Hirschhorn
