Claude Lanzmann
Claude Lanzmann (; 27 November 1925 - 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker. He was known for the Holocaust documentary movie Shoah (1985).
Lanzmann was born in Paris.
He was chief editor of the journal Les Temps Modernes, which was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. In 2009, Lanzmann published his memoirs under the title Le lievre de Patagonie (The Patagonian Hare).
He was a lecturer at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
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1925 births
2018 deaths
Writers from Paris
Movie directors from Paris
French Jews
French educators