Shoah

8.26

566 minutes

4/21/1985

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 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 List

Claude Lanzmann
as Self - Interviewer
Simon Srebnik
as Self
Michael Podchlebnik
as Self
Motke Zaidl
as Self
Jan Karski
as Self
Paula Biren
as Self
Abraham Bomba
as Self
Inge Deutschkron
as Self
Ruth Elias
as Self
Richard Glazar
as Self
Filip Müller
as Self
Rudolf Vrba
as Self
Raul Hilberg
as Self
Hanna Zaïdl
as Self
Jan Piwonski
as Self
Itzhak Dugin
as Self
Helena Pietyra
as Self
Pan Filipowicz
as Self
Pan Falborski
as Self
Czeslaw Borowi
as Self
Henrik Gawkowski
as Self
Franz Suchomel
as Self
Joseph Oberhauser
as Self
Alfred Spiess
as Self
Franz Schalling
as Self
Martha Michelsohn
as Self
Moshe Mordo
as Self
Armando Aaron
as Self
Walter Stier
as Self
Franz Grassler
as Self
Gertude Schneider
as Self
Itzhak Zuckermann
as Self
Simha Rotem
as Self
Francine Kaufmann
as Self - Interpreter: Hebrew
Barbara Janicka
as Self - Interpreter: Polish
Mrs. Apfelbaum
as Self - Interpreter: Yiddish
Charlotte Hirschhorn
as Self - Gertrude Schneider's mother