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Claude Lanzmann

Claude Lanzmann
Lanzmann in 2014
Born(1925-11-27)27 November 1925
Bois-Colombes, France
Died5 July 2018(2018-07-05) (aged 92)
Paris, France
OccupationFilmmaker
Years active1970–2018
Known forShoah (1985)
Spouses
(m. 1963; div. 1971)
(m. 1971, divorced)
Dominique Petithory
(m. 1995)
PartnerSimone de Beauvoir (1952–1959)
Children2

Claude Lanzmann (French: [lanzman]; 27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker, best known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985), which consists of nine and a half hours of oral testimony from Holocaust survivors, without historical footage. He is also known for his 2017 documentary film Napalm, about a love affair he had with a North Korean nurse whilst visiting North Korea in 1958, several years after the Korean War.

In addition to filmmaking, Lanzmann had also been the chief editor of Les Temps Modernes, a French literary magazine.


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