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Claude Lanzmann

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French documentary filmmaker (1925–2018)

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Claude Lanzmann was a French author and artist whose professional career spanned from 1970 to 2011. Born on November 27, 1925, and deceased on July 5, 2018, he had three children. He also wrote under the pseudonym "le géant du nord".

Records indicate that Lanzmann was associated with 24 works in one catalog and five in another. His bibliography has been referenced by 295 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Works
24

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
FR
Active from
1927-05-04
Active to
2006-06-21

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
3
Total plays
4

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Key facts

Born
( 1925-11-27 ) 27 November 1925, Bois-Colombes , France
Died
5 July 2018 (2018-07-05) (aged 92), Paris, France
Occupation
Filmmaker
Years active
1970–2018
Known for
Shoah (1985)
Spouses
Judith Magre ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1963 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1971 ) ​ Angelika Schrobsdorff ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1971 , divorced ) ​ Dominique Petithory ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1995 ) ​
Partner
Simone de Beauvoir (1952–1959)

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Claude Lanzmann” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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