Starring: Claude Lanzmann, Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik
Overview
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.
Director
Claude Lanzmann
Production
Historia, Les Films Aleph, Ministère de la culture
Cast
Claude Lanzmann, Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl, Jan Karski, Paula Biren, Abraham Bomba, Inge Deutschkron, Ruth Elias, Richard Glazar, Filip Müller, Rudolf Vrba, Raul Hilberg, Hanna Zaïdl, Jan Piwonski, Itzhak Dugin, Helena Pietyra, Pan Filipowicz, Pan Falborski, Czeslaw Borowi