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.
Cast
Claude Lanzmann
Self - Interviewer
Simon Srebnik
Self
Michael Podchlebnik
Self
Motke Zaidl
Self
Jan Karski
Self
Paula Biren
Self
Abraham Bomba
Self
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
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
Crew
Claude Lanzmann
Director
Ziva Postec
Editor
Geneviève de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
Assistant Editor
Anna Ruiz
Assistant Editor
Yael Perlov
Assistant Editor
Christine Simonot
Assistant Editor
Bénédicte Mallet
Assistant Editor
Jimmy Glasberg
Director of Photography
William Lubtchansky
Director of Photography
Phil Gries
Director of Photography
Dominique Chapuis
Director of Photography
Jean-Yves Escoffier
Assistant Camera
Sabine Mamou
Sound Editor
Danielle Fillios
Sound Editor
Anne-Marie L'Hôte
Sound Editor
Catherine Sabba
Assistant Sound Editor
Catherine Trouillet
Assistant Sound Editor
Bernard Aubouy
Sound Mixer, Sound Engineer, Sound
Michel Vionnet
Sound Engineer, Sound
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