Forty years after the release of Claude Lanzmann’s monumental film Shoah, Guillaume Ribot reveals the director’s relentless pursuit to tell the untold, using only Lanzmann’s words and unseen footage from the masterpiece.
Editing
Ribot sculpts 350 hours into 94 minutes of pure obsession.
Direction
Lanzmann's voice becomes the ghost in his own machine.
Director
Guillaume Ribot
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shoah invented a new documentary language—no narration, no archival footage, only presence and absence.
Lanzmann literally jumped from a moving train to escape a screening of his own film—he found watching it unbearable.
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