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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)
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Very long, incredibly depressing spectacle based on authentic testimonies of people who survived genocide. I evaluate it with the distance of several years, but the Holocaust is a work that, when someone decides to watch it, it will stick to them forever in their memory. An extremely emotional matter. Overall impression: 100%.
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Once a topic becomes serious and reaches nine o'clock, it is somehow automatically considered a great film. I don't think so. This is not a work for everyone, that is clear, but I also don't think it is exceptional in how it presents the extermination of Jews. The film didn't strike me as powerful, but rather tiresome and boring, forcing answers that were almost cruel. And why? To make a film, or to leave a testimony here? Well, I'm not sure.
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