All I Had Was Nothingness

Je n’avais que le néant – „Shoah“ par Lanzmann

Director: Guillaume Ribot
Country: France

2025 | 94 min. | French, English, German, Polish, Hebrew
Subtitles: German, English

Producer_ Estelle Fialon, Dominique Lanzmann Rights_ mk2 Films

This expansion of Claude Lanzmann’s ›Shoah‹ also serves as a terrific introduction – to a monument of Holocaust representation and the psyche of its creator.

Claude Lanzmann’s ›Shoah‹ stands as an epochal milestone in the depiction of the Holocaust. Since 2023, the film has been part of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. The director worked on the production for 12 years, 11 of which were spent traveling across Europe to conduct interviews with victims, witnesses, and perpetrators – all because he wanted to grasp the reality of the Holocaust.

Now, filmmaker Guillaume Ribot has delved into more than 220 hours of previously unseen footage from ›Shoah‹. Using only Lanzmann’s own words and previously unseen excerpts, Ribot pays tribute to the director’s tireless quest to tell the untold.

Director

Since 2014, Guillaume Ribot has worked as a screenwriter and director. Before that, he was a press photographer. His work, often dealing with the Holocaust, has been published in “Time Magazine”, “Le Monde”, and “The New York Times”. He has also authored several books on the subject.

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