This year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps; it is also the 40th anniversary of the release of “Shoah,” Claude Lanzmann’s groundbreaking film that redefined how the Holocaust was viewed. On Monday, documentary “All I Had Was Nothingness,” which looks at the making of “Shoah,” has its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. Variety spoke to its director, Guillaume Ribot.
“All I Had Was Nothingness” is based on Lanzmann’s memoir “The Patagonian Hare” – which, read by Ribot himself, provides the voiceover to the film – and utilizes footage taken from 220 hours of outtakes from “Shoah.” The memoir gave Ribot “the
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