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Claude Lanzmann
Director 1925 - 2018

Claude Lanzmann

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... Read full bio →

Directed Films

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5 titles
Le dernier des injustes

Le dernier des injustes

Claude Lanzmann 2013 3h 39m 7.0

A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the last step before the gas chamber.

Le rapport Karski

Le rapport Karski

Claude Lanzmann 2010 48m 6.0

A powerful new film about Jan Karski, the Polish resistance figure who attempted to expose the Warsaw Ghetto and Belzec, and met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.

Sobibór, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures

Sobibór, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures

Claude Lanzmann 2001 1h 42m 7.0

Documentary interview with Yehuda Lerner, who at 17 participated in a prisoner revolt at the Nazi-run Sobibor extermination camp. Originally filmed for inclusion in Lanzmann's 1985 documentary Shoah.

Un vivant qui passe

Un vivant qui passe

Claude Lanzmann 1999 1h 8m 7.0

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

Shoah

Shoah

Claude Lanzmann 1985 9h 26m 8.6

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

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