

21/04/1985
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
as Self - Interviewer

Simon Srebnik
as Self

Michael Podchlebnik
as Self

Motke Zaidl
as Self

Jan Karski
as Self

Paula Biren
as Self

Abraham Bomba
as Self

Inge Deutschkron
as Self

Ruth Elias
as Self

Richard Glazar
as Self

Filip Müller
as Self

Rudolf Vrba
as Self

Raul Hilberg
as Self

Hanna Zaïdl
as Self

Jan Piwonski
as Self

Itzhak Dugin
as Self

Helena Pietyra
as Self

Pan Filipowicz
as Self

Pan Falborski
as Self

Czeslaw Borowi
as Self

Henrik Gawkowski
as Self

Franz Suchomel
as Self

Joseph Oberhauser
as Self

Alfred Spiess
as Self

Franz Schalling
as Self

Martha Michelsohn
as Self

Moshe Mordo
as Self

Armando Aaron
as Self

Walter Stier
as Self

Franz Grassler
as Self

Gertude Schneider
as Self

Itzhak Zuckermann
as Self

Simha Rotem
as Self

Francine Kaufmann
as Self - Interpreter: Hebrew

Barbara Janicka
as Self - Interpreter: Polish

Mrs. Apfelbaum
as Self - Interpreter: Yiddish

Charlotte Hirschhorn
as Self - Gertrude Schneider's mother
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