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Claude Lanzmann

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Born November 27, 1925 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Died July 5, 2018

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Biography

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, witnesses, and perpetrators presented using contemporary, non-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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Awards & recognition

  • Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit · 2014
  • Honorary Golden Bear · 2013
  • honorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem · 1999
  • Verzetsprijs van de Stichting Kunstenaarsverzet · 1993
  • Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
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  • honorary doctor of the University of Lucerne
  • Resistance Medal

Filmography6 titles

Shoah

1985as Self - Interviewer

Shoah: Four Sisters

2018as Self - Interviewer

Hôtel Terminus

1988as Self

Shoah: Four Sisters

2018as Self - Interviewer

The Last of the Unjust

2013as Self - Interviewer

We Shall Not Die Now

2019as Self (archive footage)