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.
Top Cast
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Claude LanzmannSelf - Interviewer
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Simon SrebnikSelf
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Michael PodchlebnikSelf
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Motke ZaidlSelf
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Jan KarskiSelf
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Paula BirenSelf
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Abraham BombaSelf
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Inge DeutschkronSelf
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Ruth EliasSelf
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Richard GlazarSelf
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Filip MüllerSelf
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Rudolf VrbaSelf
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Raul HilbergSelf
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Hanna ZaïdlSelf
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Jan PiwonskiSelf
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Itzhak DuginSelf
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Helena PietyraSelf
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Pan FilipowiczSelf
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Pan FalborskiSelf
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Czeslaw BorowiSelf
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Henrik GawkowskiSelf
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Franz SuchomelSelf
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Joseph OberhauserSelf
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Alfred SpiessSelf
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Franz SchallingSelf
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Martha MichelsohnSelf
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Moshe MordoSelf
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Armando AaronSelf
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Walter StierSelf
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Franz GrasslerSelf
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Gertude SchneiderSelf
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Itzhak ZuckermannSelf
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Simha RotemSelf
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Francine KaufmannSelf - Interpreter: Hebrew
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Barbara JanickaSelf - Interpreter: Polish
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Mrs. ApfelbaumSelf - Interpreter: Yiddish
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Charlotte HirschhornSelf - Gertrude Schneider's mother