Country
Italy
Date
Aug 28, 1985
Note
Venice Film Festival
9h 26min
Overall average
5.0/10
Trailer
Videos
Plot
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.
Main cast
Full cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Inge Deutschkron | Self |
| Ruth Elias | Self |
| Richard Glazar | Self |
| Filip Müller | Self |
| Rudolf Vrba | Self |
| Raul Hilberg | Self |
| Hanna Zaïdl | Self |
| Jan Piwonski | Self |
| Itzhak Dugin | Self |
| Helena Pietyra | Self |
| Pan Filipowicz | Self |
| Pan Falborski | Self |
| Czeslaw Borowi | Self |
| Henrik Gawkowski | Self |
| Franz Suchomel | Self |
| Joseph Oberhauser | Self |
| Alfred Spiess | Self |
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| Franz Schalling | Self |
| Martha Michelsohn | Self |
| Moshe Mordo | Self |
| Armando Aaron | Self |
| Walter Stier | Self |
| Franz Grassler | Self |
| Gertude Schneider | Self |
| Itzhak Zuckermann | Self |
| Simha Rotem | Self |
| Francine Kaufmann | Self - Interpreter: Hebrew |
| Barbara Janicka | Self - Interpreter: Polish |
| Mrs. Apfelbaum | Self - Interpreter: Yiddish |
| Charlotte Hirschhorn | Self - Gertrude Schneider's mother |
Genres
DocumentaryHistory
Technical details
| Dettaglio | Valore |
|---|---|
| Titolo originale | Shoah |
| Lingua originale | Français (FR) |
| Lingue parlate | עִבְרִית, Deutsch, Français, Polski, English |
| Paesi di produzione | France |
| Stato | Released |
| Compagnie di produzione | Historia, Les Films Aleph, Ministère de la culture |
| Data di uscita | 21 aprile 1985 |
| Editors | Ziva Postec, Geneviève de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, Anna Ruiz, Yael Perlov, Christine Simonot, Bénédicte Mallet |
| Cinematography | Jimmy Glasberg, William Lubtchansky, Phil Gries, Dominique Chapuis, Jean-Yves Escoffier |
| Asst. Directors | Claude Lanzmann |
| Camera Operators | Jimmy Glasberg, William Lubtchansky, Phil Gries, Dominique Chapuis, Jean-Yves Escoffier |
| Add. Photography | Jimmy Glasberg, William Lubtchansky, Phil Gries, Dominique Chapuis, Jean-Yves Escoffier |
| Composer | Bernard Aubouy, Michel Vionnet, Catherine Sabba, Sabine Mamou, Catherine Trouillet, Danielle Fillios, Anne-Marie L'Hôte |
| Sound | Bernard Aubouy, Michel Vionnet, Catherine Sabba, Sabine Mamou, Catherine Trouillet, Danielle Fillios, Anne-Marie L'Hôte |
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| Incasso | 20.175 € |
Release dates
Premiere
Country
United States
Date
Oct 23, 1985
Note
New York City's Cinema Studio
Country
Israel
Date
Jun 01, 1986
Note
Jerusalem Cinematheque
Limited release
Country
France
Date
Apr 21, 1985
Certification
U
Note
Paris
Theatrical release
Country
United States
Date
Nov 01, 1985
Certification
NR
Physical media
Country
Netherlands
Date
Oct 07, 2016
Certification
12
Note
DVD
TV
Country
United States
Date
Apr 27, 1987
Note
Part 1 - PBS
Country
France
Date
Jun 30, 1987
Note
Part 1 - TF1
Country
Italy
Date
Jul 01, 1987
Country
Germany
Date
Jul 03, 1987
Certification
0
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Country
United Kingdom
Date
Jan 25, 2015
Note
BBC Four- Part 1
Country
Netherlands
Date
Apr 29, 2019
Certification
12
Note
NPO 2
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