Shoah is a 1985 French documentary film about the Holocaust, directed by Claude Lanzmann. Over nine hours long and 11 years in the making, the film presents Lanzmann's interviews with survivors, witnesses and perpetrators during visits to German Holocaust sites across Poland, including extermination camps.
US theatrical release poster
Jan Karski was interviewed by Lanzmann in the winter of 1978–1979 in Washington, D.C.
Claude Lanzmann, 2011
Claude Lanzmann was a French filmmaker. He is known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985), which consists of nine and a half hours of oral testimony from Holocaust survivors, without historical footage. He is also known for his 2017 documentary film Napalm, about a love affair he had with a North Korean nurse whilst visiting North Korea in 1958, several years after the Korean War.
Lanzmann in 2014