Claude Lanzmann

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1925-11-27 (93 years old)

Deathday

2018-07-05

Place of Birth

Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Claude Lanzmann

Biography

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 immigrated to France from The Russian Empire. He was the brother of writer Jacques Lanzmann. Lanzmann attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. While his family disguised their identity and went into hiding during World War II, he joined the French resistance at the age of 17, along with his father and brother, and fought in Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French ...

Acting

2008

Lights And Shadows

as Self - Interviewer

2010

The Karski Report

as Self - Interviewer

2013

The Last of the Unjust

as Self - Interviewer

1994

Tsahal

as Self - Interviewer

2016

The Clown

as Self

2018

Shoah: Four Sisters

as Self - Interviewer

2019

We Shall Not Die Now

as Self (archive footage)

2001

1985

Shoah

as Self - Interviewer

1999

A Visitor from the Living

as Self - Interviewer

1973

Israel, Why

as Self - Interviewer

2017

Napalm

as Self

2025

All I Had Was Nothingness

as Self (archive footage)

Production

2008

2008

1985

Shoah

as Director

2010

2010

2013

1973

Israel, Why

as Director

1994

Tsahal

as Director

2017

Napalm

as Director

2018

1970

2018

1973

Israel, Why

as Writer

1994

Tsahal

as Writer

2017

Napalm

as Writer

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