Shoah
When atrocity becomes sanitized as history
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.
Director
Claude Lanzmann
Producer
Claude Lanzmann
Runtime
9 hours
Captions Available
None Available
Festival & Awards
WINNER—Peabody Award