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Shoah (1985)

April 21, 19859h 26mFR
8.2

219 votes

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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Status

Released

Original Language

Yiddish

Budget

N/A

Revenue

$20K

Production Companies

HistoriaLes Films AlephMinistère de la culture

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User Reviews

Andres Gomez

10.0

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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CinemaSerf

7.0

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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