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Shoah
Directed by
Claude Lanzmann
Not Rated
1985
9h 26m
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8.7
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Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
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Cast of Shoah
Claude Lanzmann
Self - Interviewer / Director
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
Shoah Ratings & Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
With his 9 1/2-hour Shoah, Claude Lanzmann has accomplished the seemingly impossible: He has brought such beauty to his recounting of the horror of the Holocaust that he has made it accessible and comprehensible.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
By straightforwardly presenting interviews with people who lived through the Holocaust, Lanzmann makes it real again. Even more impressively, he helps us to see how the horror could have happened.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Candice Russell
Lanzmann`s monumental film bears significant witness to the Holocaust. Those who see it will never forget it.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
Shoah is the greatest use of film in motion picture history, taking movies to their highest moral value. For what director/interviewer Lanzmann has done on film is nothing less than revive history, a history so ugly that many would prefer to forget.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
a magnificently disquieting experience--a harrowing descent into the depths of humanity's potential for unmitigated brutality, cruelty, and evil.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
[It] has transcended the cinema to become a primary record of the extermination of European Jews during the Second World War.
The Nation
Stuart Klawans
It's brilliantly conceived; it's intolerable. It is the indispensable film of any year when it appears.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Why revisit "Shoah'' 25 years after it was first released? Because it matters more a quarter century on, just as it will matter even more in a hundred years, and 200, and - if it and we survive - a thousand.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
the film's achievement is to show there are stories worth hearing, and ravaged, resilient faces that reward our scrutiny. The horror, the gallows humor, the shame and the heroism, the lessons of this holocaust -- and all others--have not been exhausted.
TV Guide
To see these places and events described by the voices and faces of those who lived through them is immensely important.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
At a time when the few remaining witnesses to the Holocaust are passing away, Shoah more than ever stands as a necessary experience.
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
takes to task largely accepted concepts of what is known, what can be imagined, and how people relate to Hitler's mass extermination with an unrivaled formal insight.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
Viewing "Shoah" today proves that the Holocaust is not a discrete event, but rather an ongoing public narrative in which the movie continues to play a crucial part.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
'Shoah' is difficult to watch, but few other films match its consideration of unspeakable evil and indifference.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
The chief success of the film...is to remove the Holocaust from its comfortably horrifying place in history, and restore a human face to the atrocities.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
In his seminal Holocaust documentary, which runs over 9 hours, Lanzmann doesn't use archival footage, only interviews with survivors and Nazi officers. He does something fascinating, placing his aggressive presence center-stage, not to be ignored.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Magnificent.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Lanzmann builds the past using tools that exist only in the present, summoning an unfathomable catastrophe with the voices and memories of survivors.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
There is no proper response to this film. It is an enormous fact, a 550-minute howl of pain and anger in the face of genocide. It is one of the noblest films ever made.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
More than a treatment of a great subject, the film itself is a great achievement in form.
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