SVT shows a nine-hour documentary about the Holocaust

You describe it as important and relevant to show "Shoah". What has the film meant?

- It is considered a groundbreaking masterpiece, a beacon that changed the documentary genre forever. "Shoah" also changed the world's view of the Holocaust. The film is unique in that it is based entirely on interviews with victims, accomplices and Nazis, often filmed close to the places where it happened, rather than on Nazi propaganda films or images from the concentration camps.

It took director Claude Lanzmann eleven years to make "Shoah". How would you say it feels when you watch the film?

- It shows in the scope. It is as if you understand it in two ways at the same time. Partly because the film is so long, which makes it clear how much work went into making it. Partly by understanding the scope of the subject that the film portrays.

The nine-hour film will be screened in its entirety over two nights. What experience do you want to give the viewer?

- The timing is not chosen at random, but to mark the anniversary of the November pogrom in 1938. We wanted to make it possible to experience the film in its entirety, for those who want to. At SVT Play, we have divided it into four parts, so that you can watch for a while and return later. You also get a lot out of watching the behind-the-scenes footage. Today there are few Holocaust survivors left who can tell for themselves, so these are the voices that exist and it is important to listen.

"Shoah" will be shown on SVT during the nights of November 9 and 10, together with the documentary "All I had was emptiness. Portraying the Holocaust" by Guillaume Ribot, which is about how "Shoah" was made.