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
• Release21 April 1985
• Genre
  Documentary / History
• Duration9h 26m
• Budget?
• Revenue$20,175
• Rate
  

  8.3
  206 reviews
• Productions

  Historia, Les Films Aleph, Ministère de la culture