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Archive - Festival 41

A Powerful Behind-the-Scenes Look at Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’

The Hollywood Reporter
  • Archive - Festival 41
  • Director: Guillaume Ribot
  • France 2025
  • 94 minutes
  • French, English, German, Polish, Hebrew
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Claude Lanzmann spent 12 years creating Shoah (1985), the groundbreaking film that redefined Holocaust representation. 40 years later, filmmaker Guillaume Ribot delves into 220 hours of unreleased footage.

Lanzmann’s quest to capture the reality of the Holocaust led him to interview victims, witnesses, and perpetrators from all over the world. Overcoming doubts, setbacks, and false leads, he embarked on an unparalleled journey that culminated in a landmark masterpiece, now part of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register.

Using only Lanzmann’s own words - drawn from his memoirs - and never-before-seen excerpts, Guillaume Ribot pays homage to one of cinema’s masterpieces and to its director’s relentless pursuit of telling the untold.

Filmography:  Ukraine 1933: Seeds of Hunger (2022), The Black Book (2019). 


This film is part of the Double Feature Benefit: Claude Lanzmann
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  • Director Guillaume Ribot
  • Production Estelle Fialon, Dominique Lanzmann
  • Script Guillaume Ribot
  • Editing Svetlana Vaynblat
  • Festivals Berlin, Sydney, Toronto Jewish (Best Documentary Award)
  • Source Lev Cinemas