The read
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do. It runs long at 9h 26m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb8.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Metacritic99/100
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
228 audience votes
Key crew
- Claude LanzmannDirector
Cast
- Claude LanzmannSelf - Interviewer
- Simon SrebnikSelf
- Michael PodchlebnikSelf
- Motke ZaidlSelf
- Jan KarskiSelf
- Paula BirenSelf
- Abraham BombaSelf
- Inge DeutschkronSelf
- Ruth EliasSelf
- Richard GlazarSelf
- Filip MüllerSelf
- Rudolf VrbaSelf