Claude Lanzmann

Claude Lanzmann

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. Lanzmann was the chief editor of the journal Les Temps Modernes, founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and lecturer at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. In 2009 he published his memoirs under the title Le lièvre de Patagonie ("The Patagonian Hare"). Lanzmann's most renowned work, Shoah (1985), is a nine-and-a-half-hour oral history of the Holocaust. Shoah is made without the use of any historical footage, and uses only first-person testimony from perpetrators and victims, and contemporary footage of Holocaust-related sites. Interviewees include the Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski and the American Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg. When the film was released, the director also published the complete text, including in English translation, with introductions by Lanzmann and Simone de Beauvoir. Lanzmann disagreed, sometimes angrily, with attempts to understand the why of Hitler, stating that the evil of Hitler cannot or should not be explained and that to do so is immoral and an obscenity. Lanzmann also oftentimes pushed his subjects to extreme emotional limits to bring out the most authentic reactions for his audience. The interview with barber Abraham Bomba is a staple of a Claude Lanzmann interview. A compilation of "Shoah: Unseen Interviews" was released in 2012 that included interviews filmed at the time of the original production but never made it into the film. On 4 July 2018, his last work, Les Quatre Soeurs (Shoah: Four Sisters) was released, featuring testimonials from four Holocaust survivors not included in his Shoah. Lanzmann died the following day. From 1952 to 1959, he lived with Simone de Beauvoir. In 1963 he married French actress Judith Magre. They divorced in 1971, and he later married Angelika Schrobsdorff, a German-Jewish writer. He divorced a second time, and was the father of Angélique Lanzmann and Félix Lanzmann. Claude Lanzmann died on 5 July 2018 at his Paris home, after having been ill for several days. He was 92. Source: Article "Claude Lanzmann" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title : Claude Lanzmann
  • Popularity : 1.364
  • Known For : Directing
  • Birthday : 1925-11-27
  • Place of Birth : Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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Claude Lanzmann Movies

  • 2008
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    Lights And Shadows

    Lights And Shadows

    1 2008 HD

    At the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of Israel, Claude Lanzmann made an interview of Ehud Barak, on March 1st, 2008.

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  • 2010
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    The Karski Report

    The Karski Report

    6 2010 HD

    A powerful new film about Jan Karski, the Polish resistance figure who attempted to expose the Warsaw Ghetto and Belzec, and met with President...

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  • 2013
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    The Last of the Unjust

    The Last of the Unjust

    6.5 2013 HD

    A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people...

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  • 2018
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    Ziva Postec: The Editor Behind the Film Shoah

    Ziva Postec: The Editor Behind the Film Shoah

    6.5 2018 HD

    This film tells the life story of Ziva Postec, emphasizing the period when she was editing Shoah from 350 hours of footage.

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  • 1994
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    Tsahal

    Tsahal

    5.4 1994 HD

    The ideologies underlying the foundation of modern Israel are explored in this documentary, the third of a trilogy (created over a twenty year span)...

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  • 1970
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    Delphine Seyrig

    Delphine Seyrig

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2015
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    Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah

    Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah

    6.9 2015 HD

    The process of making Shoah.

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  • 2016
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    The Clown

    The Clown

    8 2016 HD

    A documentary directed by Eric Friedler about Jerry Lewis' never released movie "The Day The Clown Cried".

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  • 1988
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    Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

    Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

    7 1988 HD

    Marcel Ophuls' riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed "The Butcher of Lyon." Responsible for over 4,000 deaths in...

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  • 2019
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    A Philosopher in the Arena

    A Philosopher in the Arena

    2 2019 HD

    After his retirement, french philosopher and bullfighting enthusiast Francis Wolff decides to embark on a journey to France, Spain and Mexico joined...

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  • 2018
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    Shoah: Four Sisters

    Shoah: Four Sisters

    6.3 2018 HD

    Since 1999, Claude Lanzmann has made several films that could be considered satellites of Shoah, comprised of interviews conducted in the 1970s that...

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  • 2019
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    We Shall Not Die Now

    We Shall Not Die Now

    1 2019 HD

    A chronicle of the Holocaust, told by the resilient survivors who lived through it.

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  • 2001
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    Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m.

    Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m.

    6.2 2001 HD

    Documentary interview with Yehuda Lerner, who at 17 participated in a prisoner revolt at the Nazi-run Sobibor extermination camp. Originally filmed...

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  • 1985
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    Shoah

    Shoah

    8.288 1985 HD

    Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single...

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  • 1999
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    A Visitor from the Living

    A Visitor from the Living

    6.1 1999 HD

    An interview with a WWII Red Cross official who wrote a glowing report on a Jewish ghetto-cum-death camp.

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  • 1973
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    Israel, Why

    Israel, Why

    7.5 1973 HD

    Using interviews and other footage shot especially for this documentary, French director Claude Lanzmann investigates the state of Israel in 1972....

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  • 2017
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    Napalm

    Napalm

    4.9 2017 HD

    Napalm is the story of the breathtaking and brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the first Western European delegation officially...

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  • 2008
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    Lights And Shadows

    Lights And Shadows

    1 2008 HD

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  • 2008
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    Lights And Shadows

    Lights And Shadows

    1 2008 HD

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  • 1985
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    Shoah

    Shoah

    8.288 1985 HD

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  • 2001
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    Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m.

    Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m.

    6.2 2001 HD

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  • 2010
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    The Karski Report

    The Karski Report

    6 2010 HD

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  • 2010
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    The Karski Report

    The Karski Report

    6 2010 HD

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  • 2013
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    The Last of the Unjust

    The Last of the Unjust

    6.5 2013 HD

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  • 2013
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    The Last of the Unjust

    The Last of the Unjust

    6.5 2013 HD

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  • 1999
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    A Visitor from the Living

    A Visitor from the Living

    6.1 1999 HD

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  • 1999
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    A Visitor from the Living

    A Visitor from the Living

    6.1 1999 HD

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  • 1973
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    Israel, Why

    Israel, Why

    7.5 1973 HD

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  • 1994
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    Tsahal

    Tsahal

    5.4 1994 HD

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  • 2017
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    Napalm

    Napalm

    4.9 2017 HD

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  • 2018
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    Shoah: Four Sisters

    Shoah: Four Sisters

    6.3 2018 HD

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  • 1970
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    Elise, or Real Life

    Elise, or Real Life

    6 1970 HD

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  • 2018
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    Shoah: Four Sisters

    Shoah: Four Sisters

    6.3 2018 HD

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  • 1999
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    A Visitor from the Living

    A Visitor from the Living

    6.1 1999 HD

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  • 2001
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    Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m.

    Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m.

    6.2 2001 HD

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  • 1973
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    Israel, Why

    Israel, Why

    7.5 1973 HD

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  • 1994
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    Tsahal

    Tsahal

    5.4 1994 HD

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  • 2017
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    Napalm

    Napalm

    4.9 2017 HD

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  • 2012
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    28 minutes

    28 minutes

    2.5 2012 HD

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  • 1964
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    Grimme-Preis-Verleihung

    Grimme-Preis-Verleihung

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1975
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    8.5 1975 HD

    Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years...

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  • 2002
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    NDR Kultur – Das Journal

    NDR Kultur – Das Journal

    1 2002 HD

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  • 2004
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    Kulturplatz

    Kulturplatz

    6 2004 HD

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  • 1985
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    Shoah

    Shoah

    1 1985 HD

    Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single...

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  • 1970
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    Shoah

    Shoah

    8 1970 HD

    Paula Biren, Ruth Elias, Ada Lichtman, Hanna Marton: Four Jewish women, witnesses and survivors of the most insane and pitiless barbarism, and who,...

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  • 1970
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    Shoah

    Shoah

    1 1970 HD

    Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single...

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  • 1970
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    Shoah

    Shoah

    1 1970 HD

    Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single...

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  • 1970
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    Shoah

    Shoah

    8 1970 HD

    Paula Biren, Ruth Elias, Ada Lichtman, Hanna Marton: Four Jewish women, witnesses and survivors of the most insane and pitiless barbarism, and who,...

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  • 1970
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    Shoah

    Shoah

    1 1970 HD

    Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single...

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