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... Read full bio →
Les quatre soeurs
Four interviews done in the 1970s with women who survived the Holocaust.
Le dernier des injustes
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
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
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
An interview with a WWII Red Cross official who wrote a glowing report on a Jewish ghetto-cum-death camp.
Elise ou la vraie vie
Une jeune Bordelaise rejoint son frère à Paris. Employée dans une usine d'automobiles, elle y rencontre un jeune Algérien dont elle tombe amoureuse.