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21/04/1985 Documentary, History 9h 26m
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Overview

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.

  1. Claude Lanzmann

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Claude Lanzmann

    Self - Interviewer

  2. Simon Srebnik

    Self

  3. Michael Podchlebnik

    Self

  4. Motke Zaidl

    Self

  5. Jan Karski

    Self

  6. Paula Biren

    Self

  7. Abraham Bomba

    Self

  8. Inge Deutschkron

    Self

  9. Ruth Elias

    Self

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-04-04
Told by way of a sort of travelogue of sites of holocaust atrocity, and augmented most potently by survivors, their families and by former Nazis themselves, this documentary reveals in very considerable - and considered - detail the true horrors of the concentration camps. Claude Lanzmann doesn't use any actuality - and, oddly enough, that makes the actuality of the now peaceful sites all the more poignant when described by the people who lived there before, during and after these heart-rending periods of persecution. I've worked extensively with Eastern European people over the years, and wha...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
French

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$20,175.00

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