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Shoah

April 21 1985 (over 39 years ago)
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  • 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.

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