ALL I HAD WAS NOTHINGNESS

A film by Guillaume Ribot

France / Color / status : completed / French, English, German, Polish, Hebrew, Yiddish / long feature-film

Claude Lanzmann spent 12 years creating Shoah (1985), a groundbreaking film that revolutionised the representation of the Holocaust in cinema. Four decades later, filmmaker Guillaume Ribot immerses himself in over 220 hours of unreleased footage from Shoah.
Lanzmann’s quest to capture the full reality of the Holocaust led him to interview victims, witnesses, and perpetrators from all over the world. Overcoming doubt, setbacks, and false leads, he embarked on an unparalleled journey culminating in a landmark masterpiece, now part of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register.

Only using 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.