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Shoah

Name: Shoah
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 1985-04-21
Duration: 566 min
Rating: 8.214

★ 8,2 /10 (222 Votes)

1985 FR 566 min

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 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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Release date

21/04/1985

Votes

222

Popularity

2.9

Genres

Documentary History

Status

Released

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Runtime

566 min

Revenue

$20,175

Claude Lanzmann

Self - Interviewer

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Simon Srebnik

Self

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Michael Podchlebnik

Self

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Motke Zaidl

Self

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Jan Karski

Self

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Paula Biren

Self

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Abraham Bomba

Self

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Inge Deutschkron

Self

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Ruth Elias

Self

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Richard Glazar

Self

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Filip Müller

Self

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Rudolf Vrba

Self

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Raul Hilberg

Self

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Hanna Zaïdl

Self

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Jan Piwonski

Self

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Itzhak Dugin

Self

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Helena Pietyra

Self

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Pan Filipowicz

Self

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Pan Falborski

Self

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Czeslaw Borowi

Self

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Henrik Gawkowski

Self

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Franz Suchomel

Self

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Joseph Oberhauser

Self

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Alfred Spiess

Self

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Franz Schalling

Self

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Martha Michelsohn

Self

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Moshe Mordo

Self

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Armando Aaron

Self

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Walter Stier

Self

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Franz Grassler

Self

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Gertude Schneider

Self

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Itzhak Zuckermann

Self

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Simha Rotem

Self

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Francine Kaufmann

Self - Interpreter: Hebrew

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Barbara Janicka

Self - Interpreter: Polish

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Mrs. Apfelbaum

Self - Interpreter: Yiddish

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Charlotte Hirschhorn

Self - Gertrude Schneider's mother

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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. Probably, I still don't even get to be close to its understanding now but this has been clear to me after watching the movie. This is the kind of historic document with incalculable value to leave proof of what happened during WWII so nobody can really put it in question. I would even say that this movie should be passed in history class in high-schools all around the world. The work done is huge …

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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 considerable - and considered - detail the true horrors of the concentration camps. Claude Lanzmann doesn't use any actuality - and, oddly enough, that makes the actuality of the now peaceful sites all the more poignant when described by the people who lived there before, during and after these heart-rending periods of persecution. I've worked extensively with Eastern European people over the years, and wha…

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