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Claude Lanzmann Biography (1925-)

Born 1925 in Paris, France.

Gender

Male

Occupation

Film director, writer

Birth Details

1925

Paris, France

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Film Director
• Documentaries
• Pourquoi Israel? (also known as Israel, Why?), New Yorker,1973
• (And producer) Un vivant qui passe (also known as A Visitor from the Living), New Yorker, 1977 then 1997.
• (And producer) Shoah, New Yorker, 1985
• Tsahal, President Films, 1994
• Sobibor, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures (also known as Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m.), Mars Films, 2001
• Film Appearances
• Documentaries
• Un vivant qui passe (also known as A Visitor from the Living), New Yorker, 1977 then 1997.
• Hotel Terminus: Klaus Barbie, His Life and Times (also known as Hotel Terminus, Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, and Hotel Terminus: Klaus Barbie et son temps), 1988
• Autopsie d'un mensonge--La negationnisme, Les Acacias, 2000
• Television Work
• Specials
• Producer and director, Shoah (documentary), New Yorker, then PBS,c. 1988.
• WRITINGS
• Screenplays
• Documentaries
• Elise ou la vraie vie, 1970
• Pourquoi Israel? (also known as Israel, Why?), New Yorker,1973
• Shoah, New Yorker, 1985
• Tsahal, President Films, 1994
• Sobibor, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures (also known as Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m.), Mars Films, 2001
• Books
• Editor, The Bird Has No Wings: Letters of Peter Schwiefert, translated from the French by Barbara Lucas, Search, 1976
• Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust, Pantheon, 1985
• Shoah: The Complete Text of the Acclaimed Holocaust Film, 1995
• Other Writings
• Contributor to periodicals, including the French newspaper Le monde; also worked as editor, later director, of Les temps modernes.