Filmmaker Claude Lanz-mann’s nine-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 11 years on the film, which was released in 1985.
The Aladdin Project, a Paris-based group, says the film will be shown starting next Monday over several days on the Los Angeles-based satellite channel Pars.
Lanzmann said the documentary may be an effective vehicle to counter the Holocaust denials of President Ahmadi-nejad.
“Truth is transmitted by [such] works…. It is works of art that are the true building stones of memory,” Lanzmann told The Associated Press in an interview. At the very least, Iranians “will have the chance to form their own opinions” about the Holocaust.
The Aladdin Project twice sought permission from Iran to hold a news conference in Tehran about the Holocaust, but received no response, said Abe Radkin, the group’s executive director.
“If the Iranian government agrees to broadcast [the film] on a public channel, we would welcome it,” Radkin said.