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Claude Lanzmann

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Claude Lanzmann

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French documentary filmmaker (1925–2018)

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Works
24

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

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Total plays
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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.

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