Release Date

21 Apr, 1985

Runtime

09:26: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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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Actors

Claude Lanzmann

Simon Srebnik

Michael Podchlebnik

Motke Zaidl

Jan Karski

Paula Biren

Abraham Bomba

Inge Deutschkron

Ruth Elias

Richard Glazar

Filip Müller

Rudolf Vrba

Raul Hilberg

Hanna Zaïdl

Jan Piwonski

Itzhak Dugin

Helena Pietyra

Pan Filipowicz

Pan Falborski

Czeslaw Borowi

Henrik Gawkowski

Crew

Claude Lanzmann

Bernard Aubouy

Bernard Aubouy

Sabine Mamou

Catherine Sabba

Catherine Trouillet

Michel Vionnet

Geneviève de Gouvion Saint-Cyr

Bénédicte Mallet

Yael Perlov

Anna Ruiz

Christine Simonot

Dominique Chapuis

Jimmy Glasberg