- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- November 27, 1925
- Place of Birth
- Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Died
- July 5, 2018
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 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 war in Algeria and signed the 1960 antiwar petition Manifesto of the 121. Lanzmann was the chief editor of the journal Les Temps Modernes, founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and lecturer at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, …
Filmography
movieAll I Had Was Nothingness
2025 · Self (archive footage)
movieWe Shall Not Die Now
2019 · Self (archive footage)
movieA Philosopher in the Arena
2019 · Self
movieZiva Postec: The Editor Behind the Film Shoah
2018 · Self (archive footage)
movieShoah: Four Sisters
2018 · Self - Interviewer, Director, Writer
tvShoah: Four Sisters
2018 · Self - Interviewer, Director, Writer, Creator
movieNapalm
2017 · Self, Director, Writer
movieThe Clown
2016 · Self
movieClaude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
2015 · Self
movieThe Last of the Unjust
2013 · Self - Interviewer, Director, Writer
Claude Lanzmann "On Shoah": A Conversation with Serge Toubiana
movieClaude Lanzmann "On Shoah": A Conversation with Serge Toubiana
2013 · himself, Thanks
tv28 minutes
2012 · Self
Shoah: The Unseen Interviews
movieShoah: The Unseen Interviews
2011 · Self - Interviewer, Director
movieThe Karski Report
2010 · Self - Interviewer, Director, Writer
movieLights And Shadows
2008 · Self - Interviewer, Director, Writer
tvKulturplatz
2004 · Self
NDR Kultur – Das Journal
tvNDR Kultur – Das Journal
2002 · Self
movieSobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m.
2001 · Self - Interviewer, Director, Writer
movieA Visitor from the Living
1999 · Self - Interviewer, Director, Writer, Producer
movieTsahal
1994 · Self - Interviewer, Director, Writer
movieHôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
1988 · Self
movieShoah
1985 · Self - Interviewer, Director
tvApostrophes
1975 · Self
movieIsrael, Why
1973 · Self - Interviewer, Director, Writer
movieElise, or Real Life
1970 · Writer
Delphine Seyrig
movieDelphine Seyrig
1970
Grimme Award
tvGrimme Award
1964 · Self
movieJean-Paul Sartre - A 20 Year Absence?
— · Claude Lanzmann