Shoah

Shoah

Documentary History

Shoah

8.2/ 10(217 votes)

9h 26m

April 21, 1985

FR

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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Directed byClaude Lanzmann

Cast (37)

Claude Lanzmann

Claude Lanzmann

Self - Interviewer

Simon Srebnik

Self

Michael Podchlebnik

Self

Motke Zaidl

Self

Jan Karski

Self

Paula Biren

Self

Abraham Bomba

Self

Inge Deutschkron

Self

Ruth Elias

Self

Richard Glazar

Self

Filip Müller

Self

Rudolf Vrba

Self

Raul Hilberg

Self

Hanna Zaïdl

Self

Jan Piwonski

Self

Itzhak Dugin

Self

Helena Pietyra

Self

Pan Filipowicz

Self

Pan Falborski

Self

Czeslaw Borowi

Self

Henrik Gawkowski

Self

Franz Suchomel

Self

Joseph Oberhauser

Self

Alfred Spiess

Self

Franz Schalling

Self

Martha Michelsohn

Self

Moshe Mordo

Self

Armando Aaron

Self

Walter Stier

Self

Franz Grassler

Self

Gertude Schneider

Self

Itzhak Zuckermann

Self

Simha Rotem

Self

Francine Kaufmann

Self - Interpreter: Hebrew

Barbara Janicka

Self - Interpreter: Polish

Mrs. Apfelbaum

Self - Interpreter: Yiddish

Charlotte Hirschhorn

Self - Gertrude Schneider's mother