Claude Lanzmann
French journalist, film director / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Claude Lanzmann (French: [lanzman]; 27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker. He is 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.
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Claude Lanzmann | |
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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 | Dominique Petithory (m. 1995) |
Partner | Simone de Beauvoir (1952–1959) |
Children | 2 |
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In addition to filmmaking, Lanzmann had also been the chief editor of Les Temps Modernes, a French literary magazine.