Year: 1985
Runtime: 566 mins
Language: French
Claude Lanzmann spent eleven years making this Holocaust documentary, using only interviews and no archival footage. He groups witnesses as survivors, bystanders and perpetrators, presenting testimonies from Chelmno camp survivors, an Auschwitz escapee, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising participants, and an SS officer describing Treblinka’s gas chambers.
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