Movie Details
Theatrical Release:November 1st, 1985
Movie Box Office Gross:$20,175 (Worldwide)
Original Language:French
Production Companies:Historia, Les Films Aleph, Ministère de la culture
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.
DirectorClaude Lanzmann
