Claude Lanzmann
Directing
Born November 27, 1925 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Claude Lanzmann (27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985). Lanzmann was born on 27 November 1925 in Paris, France, the son of Paulette (née Grobermann) and Armand Lanzmann. His family was Jewish, and had immigrated to France from The Russian Empire. He was the brother of writer Jacques Lanzmann. Lanzmann attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. While his family disguised their identity and went into hiding during World War II, he joined the French resistance at the age of 17, along with his father and brother, and fought in Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed the 1960 antiwar petition Manifesto of the 121.
Filmography
Jean-Paul Sartre - A 20 Year Absence?
Claude Lanzmann
All I Had Was Nothingness
Self (archive footage)
We Shall Not Die Now
Self (archive footage)
A Philosopher in the Arena
Self
Ziva Postec: The Editor Behind the Film Shoah
Self (archive footage)
Shoah: Four Sisters
Self - Interviewer
Shoah: Four Sisters
Self - Interviewer
Napalm
Self
The Clown
Self
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
Self
The Last of the Unjust
Self - Interviewer
28 minutes
Self
The Karski Report
Self - Interviewer
Lights And Shadows
Self - Interviewer
Kulturplatz
Self
Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m.
Self - Interviewer
A Visitor from the Living
Self - Interviewer
Tsahal
Self - Interviewer
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
Self
Shoah
Self - Interviewer
Apostrophes
Self
Israel, Why
Self - Interviewer
Elise, or Real Life