Shoah
Country
Production
Genre
Budget
$0
Box office
$20 175
Director
Actors
Claude Lanzmann, Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl, Jan Karski, Paula Biren, Abraham Bomba, Inge Deutschkron, Ruth Elias, Richard Glazar
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Camera operator
William Lubtchansky
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Ziva Postec
Whole Team (18)
Whole Team (18)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- To capture his conversation with SS officer Franz Suchomel, who did not consent to being included in the film, director Claude Lanzmann had to resort to trickery: he filmed the interview with a special infrared camera hidden by assistants. Suchomel's friends and children found out. Claude Lanzmann was severely beaten by them and spent many days in the hospital. The film was released after Suchomel's death in 1979.
- 350 hours of raw footage were shot for the film.
- It took 11 years to make the film.
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