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Guillaume Ribot’s Documentary From Lanzmann’s Unseen ‘Shoah’ Footage Premieres on Arte

Using 220 hours of unused rushes with passages from Lanzmann’s memoirs, the film reconstructs Shoah’s making to reveal the filmmaker’s methods, doubts, tactics.

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Overview

  • Je n’avais que le néant: ‘Shoah’ par Lanzmann draws exclusively on images shot by Claude Lanzmann, sourced from archival holdings.
  • The film airs tonight at 22:35 on Arte, is already available on arte.tv, and opens in cinemas today.
  • Ribot combines roughly 220 hours of previously unused rushes with excerpts from Le Lièvre de Patagonie to retrace the project’s genesis.
  • The documentary details Lanzmann’s field tactics, including the alias Claude‑Marie Sorel to interview perpetrators, underscoring ethical tensions in gathering testimony.
  • It situates the material within Shoah’s legacy, from its 1976–1981 shoot across fourteen countries to this week’s 40th‑anniversary reflections and the centenary of Lanzmann’s birth.