France,
1985, 566 min
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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 Chełmno 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. (Eureka Entertainment)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
- 1987 - Best Documentary Film
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- 1985 - Claude Lanzmann (Special Citation)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- 1985 - Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary)