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November 1985 (USA) morePlot:
Claude Lanzmann directed this 9 1/2 hour documentary of the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage... more | add synopsisAwards:
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Be prepared for a long haul moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Simon Srebnik | ... | Himself |
| Michael Podchlebnik | ... | Himself |
| Motke Zaidl | ... | Himself |
| Hanna Zaidl | ... | Herself |
| Jan Piwonski | ... | Himself |
| Itzhak Dugin | ... | Himself |
| Richard Glazer | ... | Himself |
| Paula Biren | ... | Herself |
| Pana Pietyra | ... | Herself |
| Pan Filipowicz | ... | Himself |
| Pan Falborski | ... | Himself |
| Abraham Bomba | ... | Himself |
| Czeslaw Borowi | ... | Himself |
| Henrik Gawkowski | ... | Himself |
| Rudolf Vrba | ... | Himself |
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Sweden:544 min (25 fps) | UK:566 min | USA:503 minCountry:
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It's nine and a half hours of travelogue footage and interviews with terribly ordinary middle-aged and senior citizens about events that happened a half-century ago.
Except that the sites visited are the scenes of the systematic mass murder of roughly 11 million men, women and children, including some 6 million Jews, and the ordinary grandparents are the survivors and perpetrators of some of the most horrendous atrocities that mankind has committed upon each other.
It is a terribly draining movie, hypnotic and disorienting, both in it's length and in the blandness, the matter-of-fact descriptions of things that would make a normal person scream in horror. And that is what is so amazingly important and meaningful about this film; that these were ordinary, average people. These were, and are, normal folks like you and me, and anybody, regardless of background, moral upbringing, and standards of decency can be caught up in circumstances beyond their power or experience, and can do the most depraved or heroic things imaginable. It is shocking, insightful, and a very,very important film that forces us to confront our own humanity and decide what that, in fact means.
But it's nine and a half hours long. Be prepared to be drained and leave with your head buzzing.