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Claude Lanzmann
AuthorBooks · Second hand1925-2018
Claude Lanzmann 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.
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About Claude Lanzmann
Birth
1925
Death
2018
First book
1970
Years writing
41
Claude Lanzmann 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.
Claude Lanzmann was a prominent member of the French Resistance during World War II.
His masterpiece, Shoah, is a seminal documentary that redefined Holocaust cinema.
Beyond filmmaking, he pursued a prolific career as a journalist, writer, and philosopher.
He was known in certain circles by the pseudonym the giant of the north.
His filmography includes 24 works that deeply explore memory and personal history.
