Shoah
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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.
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An epic, devastating journey into the heart of unspeakable horror. Lanzmann's unflinching gaze forces a confrontation with history, leaving viewers with a profound sense of loss and the enduring weight of human testimony.
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