The creation of Shoah by Claude Lanzmann had taken eleven years to film (Smith, 2018). In 1973, Lanzmann was commissioned by the Foreign Ministry in Israel to create a film based on the Holocaust after Lanzmann’s first film, Israel, Why (Blumberg, Claude Lanzmann). According to the IMDB page on Shoah, there were about 31 interviewees, Lanzmann himself, and three translators, excluding editors and production managers that worked on the production of Shoah. Read More