About
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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8.26/10
CinemaSerf
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 considerab... read more
about 3 years ago
Andres Gomez
This is one of this movie that cannot leave anyone unmoved. I honestly can say that I didn't get to comprehend the extension and meaning of the Holocaust until I watched this 9h documentary. Probab... read more
about 9 years ago
People
Cast
Claude Lanzmann
Self - Interviewer
Simon Srebnik
Self
Michael Podchlebnik
Self
Motke Zaidl
Self
Jan Karski
Self
Paula Biren
Self
Abraham Bomba
Self
Inge Deutschkron
Self
Ruth Elias
Self
Richard Glazar
Self
Filip Müller
Self
Rudolf Vrba
Self
Raul Hilberg
Self
Hanna Zaïdl
Self
Jan Piwonski
Self
Itzhak Dugin
Self
Helena Pietyra
Self
Pan Filipowicz
Self
Pan Falborski
Self
Czeslaw Borowi
Self
Henrik Gawkowski
Self
Franz Suchomel
Self
Joseph Oberhauser
Self
Alfred Spiess
Self
Franz Schalling
Self
Martha Michelsohn
Self
Moshe Mordo
Self
Armando Aaron
Self
Walter Stier
Self
Franz Grassler
Self
Gertude Schneider
Self
Itzhak Zuckermann
Self
Simha Rotem
Self
Francine Kaufmann
Self - Interpreter: Hebrew
Barbara Janicka
Self - Interpreter: Polish
Mrs. Apfelbaum
Self - Interpreter: Yiddish
Charlotte Hirschhorn
Self - Gertrude Schneider's mother
Director
Claude Lanzmann
Director
