Shoah
Over a decade in the making, Claude Lanzmann’s nine-hour-plus opus is a monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Lanzmann instead focuses on first-person testimonies (of survivors and former Nazis, as well as other witnesses), employing a circular, free-associative method in assembling them. The intellectual yet emotionally overwhelming Shoah is not a film about excavating the past but an intensive portrait of the ways in which the past is always present, and it is inarguably one of the most important cinematic works of all time.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED FOUR-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- 2K digital restoration with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Three additional films by director Claude Lanzmann: A Visitor from the Living (1999, 68 minutes); Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001, 102 minutes); and The Karski Report (2010, 49 minutes)
- Conversation between Lanzmann and critic Serge Toubiana
- Interview with Lanzmann from 2003 about A Visitor from the Living and Sobibór
- Interview with Caroline Champetier, assistant cameraperson on Shoah, and filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin
- All I Had Was Nothingness (2025), a new film by Guillaume Ribot, edited from previously unreleased footage and recounting the production of Shoah
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones and writings by Lanzmann
Cover by Sam Smith
DIRECTOR-APPROVED FOUR-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- 2K digital restoration with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Three additional films by director Claude Lanzmann: A Visitor from the Living (1999, 68 minutes); Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001, 102 minutes); and The Karski Report (2010, 49 minutes)
- Conversation between Lanzmann and critic Serge Toubiana
- Interview with Lanzmann from 2003 about A Visitor from the Living and Sobibór
- Interview with Caroline Champetier, assistant cameraperson on Shoah, and filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin
- All I Had Was Nothingness (2025), a new film by Guillaume Ribot, edited from previously unreleased footage and recounting the production of Shoah
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones and writings by Lanzmann
Cover by Sam Smith
Cast
- Armando Aaron
- Key Witnesses
- Paula Biren
- Abraham Bomba
- Czeslaw Borowi
- Inge Deutschkron
- Itzhak Dugin
- Ruth Elias
- Pan Falborski
- Pan Filipowicz
- Henrik Gawkowski
- Richard Glazar
- Franz Grassler
- Raul Hilberg
- Jan Karski
- Martha Michelson
- Moshe Mordo
- Filip Müller
- Joseph Oberhauser
- Pani Pietyra
- Jan Piwonski
- Michaël Podchlebnik
- Simha Rottem
- Franz Schalling
- Gertrude Schneider’s mother
- Alfred Spiess
- Simon Srebnik
- Walter Stier
- Franz Suchomel
- Rudolf Vrba
- Motke Zaïdl
- Hanna Zaïdl
- Itzhak Zuckermann
Credits
- Director
- Claude Lanzmann
- Producer
- Claude Lanzmann
- Cinematographer
- Dominique Chapuis
- Cinematographer
- Jimmy Glasberg
- Cinematographer
- William Lubtchansky
- Film editor
- Ziva Postec
- Film editor
- Anna Ruiz
- Sound engineer
- Bernard Aubouy
- Sound engineer
- Michel Vionnet
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