STORY
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.
CAST & CREW
- Claude Lanzmann
- Simon Srebnik
- Michael Podchlebnik
- Motke Zaidl
- Jan Karski
Cast
- Claude Lanzmann
Director
INFORMATION
- Historia
- Les Films Aleph
- Ministère de la culture
Production Companies
- France
Production Countries
LANGUAGES
- English
- French
- German
- Hebrew
- Polish
- Yiddish