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.
Shoah has generally received very positive reviews.
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Shoah was released in 1985 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 98 reviews, giving Shoah (1985) an average rating of 88%.
Overall, cinema-goers and film critics broadly agree on the merits of the movie, with critics giving it an average score of 95% and users giving an average score of 92%.
With a score of 88%, Shoah is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1985, which stands at 59%.
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