Claude Lanzmann
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- November 27, 1925, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Died
- July 5, 2018
- Movies
- 32
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, Switzerland. In 2009 he published his memoirs under the title Le lièvre de Patagonie ("The Patagonian Hare").
Upcoming Claude Lanzmann Movies
Jean-Paul Sartre - A 20 Year Absence?
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Jean-Paul Sartre et Simone de Beauvoir
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Best-Known Movies
Shoah
1985
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
1988
The Last of the Unjust
2013
Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m.
2001
Elise, or Real Life
1970
The Karski Report
2010
A Visitor from the Living
1999
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
2015
All I Had Was Nothingness
2025
Tsahal
1994
Filmography
| 2025 | All I Had Was Nothingness | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | We Shall Not Die Now | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | A Philosopher in the Arena | Self |
| 2018 | Ziva Postec: The Editor Behind the Film Shoah | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Shoah: Four Sisters | Self - Interviewer |
| 2017 | Napalm | Self |
| 2016 | The Clown | Self |
| 2015 | Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah | Self |
| 2013 | The Last of the Unjust | Self - Interviewer |
| 2013 | Claude Lanzmann "On Shoah": A Conversation with Serge Toubiana | himself |
| 2011 | Shoah: The Unseen Interviews | Self - Interviewer |
| 2010 | The Karski Report | Self - Interviewer |
| 2008 | Lights and Shadows | Self - Interviewer |
| 2001 | Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. | Self - Interviewer |
| 1999 | A Visitor from the Living | Self - Interviewer |
| 1994 | Tsahal | Self - Interviewer |
| 1988 | Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie | Self |
| 1985 | Shoah | Self - Interviewer |
| 1973 | Israel, Why | Self - Interviewer |
| 1970 | Delphine Seyrig |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2018 | Shoah: Four Sisters | Director, Writer |
| 2017 | Napalm | Director, Writer |
| 2013 | The Last of the Unjust | Director, Writer |
| 2011 | Shoah: The Unseen Interviews | Director |
| 2010 | The Karski Report | Director, Writer |
| 2008 | Lights and Shadows | Director, Writer |
| 2001 | Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. | Director, Writer |
| 1999 | A Visitor from the Living | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 1994 | Tsahal | Director, Writer |
| 1985 | Shoah | Director |
| 1973 | Israel, Why | Director, Writer |
| 1970 | Elise, or Real Life | Writer |
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