Released
Shoah
April 21 1985 (almost 40 years ago)Rating
83
Based on
196 reviews
- Director: Claude Lanzmann
- Genres: Documentary, History
- Runtime: 9 h 26 m
- Box office: $20,175
- Country: France
- Companies: Historia, Les Films Aleph, Ministère de la culture
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.
