8.3
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.
Claude Lanzmann
Self - Interviewer
Simon Srebnik
Self
Michael Podchlebnik
Self
Motke Zaidl
Self
Jan Karski
Self
Paula Biren
Self
Abraham Bomba
Self
Inge Deutschkron
Self
Ruth Elias
Self
Richard Glazar
Self
Filip Müller
Self
Rudolf Vrba
Self
Raul Hilberg
Self
Hanna Zaïdl
Self
Jan Piwonski
Self
Itzhak Dugin
Self
Helena Pietyra
Self
Pan Filipowicz
Self
Pan Falborski
Self
Czeslaw Borowi
Self
Henrik Gawkowski
Self
Franz Suchomel
Self
Joseph Oberhauser
Self
Alfred Spiess
Self
Franz Schalling
Self
Martha Michelsohn
Self
Moshe Mordo
Self
Armando Aaron
Self
Walter Stier
Self
Franz Grassler
Self
Gertude Schneider
Self
Itzhak Zuckermann
Self
Simha Rotem
Self
Francine Kaufmann
Self - Interpreter: Hebrew
Barbara Janicka
Self - Interpreter: Polish
Mrs. Apfelbaum
Self - Interpreter: Yiddish
Charlotte Hirschhorn
Self - Gertrude Schneider's mother
Director
Claude Lanzmann
April 14, 2016
10
This is one of this movie that cannot leave anyone unmoved.
I honestly can say that I didn't get to comprehend the extension and meaning of the Holocaust until I watched this 9h documentary. Probably, I still don't even get to be close to its understanding now but this has been clear to me after watching the movie.
This is the kind of historic document with incalculable value to leave proof of what happened during WWII so nobody can really put it in question. I would even say that this movie should be passed in history class in high-schools all around the world.
The work done is huge and, although I would say that, at some points, I don't understand why Lanzmann makes some kind of trivial questions, I reckon that the actual purpose is to make the viewer to understand all the aspects of the happenings: the extraordinary and the casual usual ones.
A must to be seen, if you feel strong enough to face the terrible truth and fate of millions of people.
Status:
Released
Original Language:
French
Budget:
$0.00
Revenue:
$20,175.00