Shoah
April 21, 1985
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. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents...More
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 and crew
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Claude Lanzmann
Director
Claude Lanzmann
Self - Interviewer
SS
Simon Srebnik
Self
MP
Michael Podchlebnik
Self
MZ
Motke Zaidl
Self
JK
Jan Karski
Self
PB
Paula Biren
Self
AB
Abraham Bomba
Self
ID
Inge Deutschkron
Self
RE
Ruth Elias
Self
RG
Richard Glazar
Self
FM
Filip Müller
Self
RV
Rudolf Vrba
Self
RH
Raul Hilberg
Self
HZ
Hanna Zaïdl
Self
JP
Jan Piwonski
Self
ID
Itzhak Dugin
Self
HP
Helena Pietyra
Self
PF
Pan Filipowicz
Self
PF
Pan Falborski
Self
CB
Czeslaw Borowi
Self
HG
Henrik Gawkowski
Self
FS
Franz Suchomel
Self
JO
Joseph Oberhauser
Self
AS
Alfred Spiess
Self
FS
Franz Schalling
Self
MM
Martha Michelsohn
Self
MM
Moshe Mordo
Self
AA
Armando Aaron
Self
WS
Walter Stier
Self
FG
Franz Grassler
Self
GS
Gertude Schneider
Self
IZ
Itzhak Zuckermann
Self
SR
Simha Rotem
Self
FK
Francine Kaufmann
Self - Interpreter: Hebrew
BJ
Barbara Janicka
Self - Interpreter: Polish
MA
Mrs. Apfelbaum
Self - Interpreter: Yiddish
CH
Charlotte Hirschhorn
Self - Gertrude Schneider's mother