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.
Production
Historia · Les Films Aleph · Ministère de la culture
Cast & Characters
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
Directors & Crew
Claude Lanzmann
Director
Screenshots & Stills
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