FILM

Shoah (1985)

Name: Shoah
Director: Claude Lanzmann
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 1985-04-21
Cast: Claude Lanzmann, Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl, Jan Karski

Film · 1985 · 566 min · NR · Documentary · 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.

Directed by Claude Lanzmann

Starring Claude Lanzmann, Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl, Jan Karski, Paula Biren, Abraham Bomba, Inge Deutschkron

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Release dates in the United States

In cinemas	1 November 1985
Digital release	Not listed
Physical release	Not listed
First release anywhere	21 April 1985

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