Shoah

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Details

Status: Ended
Seasons & Episodes: 1 seasons, 2 episodes
Release Date: April 24, 1985
Languages: French
Created By: Claude Lanzmann
Cast: Claude Lanzmann Simon Srebnik Richard Glazar Paula Biren Michael Podchlebnik Motke Zaidl Jan Karski Abraham Bomba Inge Deutschkron Ruth Elias
Type: Documentary

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. This epic documentary changed the way we think about the Holocaust. Featuring interviews with survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators from across Europe, mostly Poland and Germany, Shoah is drawn from over 300 hours of contemporary conversations with these witnesses, along with footage of overgrown sites of unspeakable horrors, including the concentration camp at Auschwitz. The monumental film grew out of Lanzmann's concern that the genocide perpetrated only 40 years earlier was already being forgotten. In response, he relied entirely on accounts from witnesses, rather than historical footage or reenactments, sometimes resorting to hidden cameras or other deceptions to coax stories and memories from those with whom he spoke.

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