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.
Genre: Documentary, History
Stars: Claude Lanzmann, Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl, Jan Karski, Paula Biren
Crew: Claude Lanzmann (Director), Bernard Aubouy (Sound), Michel Vionnet (Sound), Geneviève de Gouvion Saint-Cyr (Assistant Editor), Anna Ruiz (Assistant Editor), Catherine Sabba (Assistant Sound Editor)
Country: France
Language: English, Français, Deutsch, עִבְרִית, Polski,
Studio: Historia, Les Films Aleph, Ministère de la culture
Runtime: 566 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Apr 21, 1985
IMDb: 2.7
