The movie that introduced the term "Shoah" into the debate on the Jews extermination during Nazism.
Memory becomes the unique and essential element of a path of historical reconstruction without cinematographic fiction: a variety of characters relect in fact on the tragedy and reconstructs its prior events, course, and effects. Witness is born by Jews and Nazis, who have in common the need to overcome the myth, the legend, the trivializations to reconstruct and establish the truth without filtering it through the usual means of cinema. Documental reserarch and film shooting were carried out for longer than 5 years.