Shoah (1985)

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Cast & Crew.

Claude Lanzmann
Creator / Director / Writer

Simon Srebnik

Richard Glazar

Paula Biren

Michael Podchlebnik

Motke Zaidl

Jan Karski

Abraham Bomba

Inge Deutschkron

Ruth Elias

Filip Müller

Dominique Chapuis
Director of Photography

Jimmy Glasberg
Director of Photography

Phil Gries
Director of Photography

William Lubtchansky
Director of Photography

Anna Ruiz
Assistant Editor

Bénédicte Mallet
Assistant Editor

Christine Simonot
Assistant Editor

Christine Simonot
Assistant Editor

Ziva Postec
Editor

Charlotte Hirschhorn

Mrs. Apfelbaum

Barbara Janicka

Francine Kaufmann

Itzhak Zuckermann

Armando Aaron

Moshe Mordo

Martha Michelsohn

Walter Stier

Franz Grassler

Gertude Schneider

Simha Rotem
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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.