Shoah (1985)

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April 24, 1985
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Shoah

Shoah (1985)

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April 24, 1985
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Plot.

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. This epic documentary changed the way we think about the Holocaust. Featuring interviews with survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators from across Europe, mostly Poland and Germany, Shoah is drawn from over 300 hours of contemporary conversations with these witnesses, along with footage of overgrown sites of unspeakable horrors, including the concentration camp at Auschwitz. The monumental film grew out of Lanzmann's concern that the genocide perpetrated only 40 years earlier was already being forgotten. In response, he relied entirely on accounts from witnesses, rather than historical footage or reenactments, sometimes resorting to hidden cameras or other deceptions to coax stories and memories from those with whom he spoke.

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Cast & Crew.

Claude Lanzmann

Claude Lanzmann

Creator / Director / Writer

Simon Srebnik

Simon Srebnik

Richard Glazar

Richard Glazar

Paula Biren

Paula Biren

Michael Podchlebnik

Michael Podchlebnik

Motke Zaidl

Motke Zaidl

Jan Karski

Jan Karski

Abraham Bomba

Abraham Bomba

Inge Deutschkron

Inge Deutschkron

Ruth Elias

Ruth Elias

Filip Müller

Filip Müller

Dominique Chapuis

Dominique Chapuis

Director of Photography

Jimmy Glasberg

Jimmy Glasberg

Director of Photography

Phil Gries

Phil Gries

Director of Photography

William Lubtchansky

William Lubtchansky

Director of Photography

Anna Ruiz

Anna Ruiz

Assistant Editor

Bénédicte Mallet

Bénédicte Mallet

Assistant Editor

Christine Simonot

Christine Simonot

Assistant Editor

Christine Simonot

Christine Simonot

Assistant Editor

Ziva Postec

Ziva Postec

Editor

Charlotte Hirschhorn

Charlotte Hirschhorn

Mrs. Apfelbaum

Mrs. Apfelbaum

Barbara Janicka

Barbara Janicka

Francine Kaufmann

Francine Kaufmann

Itzhak Zuckermann

Itzhak Zuckermann

Armando Aaron

Armando Aaron

Moshe Mordo

Moshe Mordo

Martha Michelsohn

Martha Michelsohn

Walter Stier

Walter Stier

Franz Grassler

Franz Grassler

Gertude Schneider

Gertude Schneider

Simha Rotem

Simha Rotem

Rudolf Vrba

Rudolf Vrba

Raul Hilberg

Raul Hilberg

Hanna Zaïdl

Hanna Zaïdl

Jan Piwonski

Jan Piwonski

Itzhak Dugin

Itzhak Dugin

Helena Pietyra

Helena Pietyra

Pan Filipowicz

Pan Filipowicz

Pan Falborski

Pan Falborski

Czeslaw Borowi

Czeslaw Borowi

Henrik Gawkowski

Henrik Gawkowski

Franz Suchomel

Franz Suchomel

Joseph Oberhauser

Joseph Oberhauser

Alfred Spiess

Alfred Spiess

Franz Schalling

Franz Schalling

Details.

Release Date
April 24, 1985

Status
Ended

Seasons
1

Episodes
2

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Wiki.

Shoah is a 1985 French documentary film about the Holocaust (known as "Shoah" in Hebrew since the 1940s), directed by Claude Lanzmann. Over nine hours long and eleven years in the making, the film presents Lanzmann's interviews with survivors, witnesses and perpetrators during visits to German Holocaust sites across Poland, including extermination camps.

Released in Paris in April 1985, Shoah won critical acclaim and several prominent awards, including the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Non-Fiction Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary. Simone de Beauvoir hailed it as a "sheer masterpiece", while documentarian Marcel Ophüls (who would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie three years later) called it "the greatest documentary about contemporary history ever made". Conversely, it was not well received in Poland, wherein the government argued that it accused Poland of "complicity in Nazi genocide".

Shoah premiered in New York at the Cinema Studio in October 1985 and was broadcast in the United States by PBS over four nights in 1987.

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