Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 566 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- holocaust (shoah)
- world war ii
- history of mankind
- history and legacy
- historical documentary
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Jan Karski — Self
- Paula Biren — Self
- Abraham Bomba — Self
- Inge Deutschkron — Self
- Ruth Elias — Self
- Richard Glazar — Self
- Filip Müller — Self
- Rudolf Vrba — Self
- Raul Hilberg — Self
- Hanna Zaïdl — Self
- Jan Piwonski — Self
- Directed
- Claude Lanzmann
Production
- Rating
- 8.2 / 10 · 227 ratings
- Studio
- Historia, Les Films Aleph, Ministère de la culture
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
