An epic French documentary about the Holocaust, dubbed into Farsi, is to be broadcast on a satellite channel in Iran as part of a campaign to promote understanding between Jews and Muslims and to fight Holocaust denial.
Filmmaker Claude Lanzmann’s renowned 9-plus-hour film “Shoah” includes testimony from concentration camp survivors and employees about the slaughter of millions of Jews in Europe during World War II. Lanzmann worked for 11 years on the film, which was released in 1985.
The Aladdin Project, a Paris-based group, says the film will be shown starting Monday over the next several days on the large Los Angeles-based satellite channel Pars.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has questioned historical accounts of the Holocaust, and called for Israel’s destruction.
The Aladdin Project also has dubbed the film into Arabic and Turkish. It will be shown in Turkey at the Istanbul film festival next month, then a week later on the TRT channel. — ap