

The Black Book
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2020-12-13 • 1h 30m
The Black Book, drafted during World War II, gathers numerous unique historical testimonies, in an effort to document Nazi abuses against Jews in the USSR . Initially supported by the regime and aimed at providing evidence during the executioners’ trials in the post-war era, the Black Book was eventually banned and most of its authors executed on Stalin’s order. Told through the voices of its most famous instigators, soviet intellectuals Vassilli Grossman, Ilya Ehrenburg and Solomon Mikhoels, the documentary, provides a detailed account of the tragic destiny of this cursed book and puts the Holocaust and Stalinism in a new light.
- Directors
- Guillaume Ribot

The Black Book
Visit website2020-12-13 • 1h 30m
8.0/10 • 3
The Black Book, drafted during World War II, gathers numerous unique historical testimonies, in an effort to document Nazi abuses against Jews in the USSR . Initially supported by the regime and aimed at providing evidence during the executioners’ trials in the post-war era, the Black Book was eventually banned and most of its authors executed on Stalin’s order. Told through the voices of its most famous instigators, soviet intellectuals Vassilli Grossman, Ilya Ehrenburg and Solomon Mikhoels, the documentary, provides a detailed account of the tragic destiny of this cursed book and puts the Holocaust and Stalinism in a new light.
- Directors
- Guillaume Ribot
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsMathieu Amalric
(voice)
Hippolyte Girardot
(voice)
Denis Podalydès
(voice)
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- Original Language
- French
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- Keywords
- holocaust (shoah)world war iikgbmanuscriptarchive footageinvestigative journalism1940sold footageholocaust (shoah) denialurssnational archiveswar documentarymass execution