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 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"). Lanzmann's most renowned work, Shoah (1985), is a nine-and-a-half-hour oral history of the Holocaust. Shoah is made without the use of any historical footage, and uses only first-person tes…

Directed

1. Shoah (1985) — Director
2. The Last of the Unjust (2013) — Director
3. Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001) — Director
4. The Karski Report (2010) — Director
5. A Visitor from the Living (1999) — Director
6. Tsahal (1994) — Director
7. Napalm (2017) — Director
8. Shoah: Four Sisters (2018) — Director
9. Israel, Why (1973) — Director
10. Shoah: Four Sisters (2018) — Director
11. Lights And Shadows (2008) — Director
12. Shoah: The Unseen Interviews (2011) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Shoah (1985) — Self - Interviewer
2. Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988) — Self
3. The Last of the Unjust (2013) — Self - Interviewer
4. Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001) — Self - Interviewer
5. The Karski Report (2010) — Self - Interviewer
6. All I Had Was Nothingness (2025) — Self (archive footage)
7. Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah (2015) — Self
8. A Visitor from the Living (1999) — Self - Interviewer
9. Tsahal (1994) — Self - Interviewer
10. Shoah: Four Sisters (2018) — Self - Interviewer
11. Napalm (2017) — Self
12. Ziva Postec: The Editor Behind the Film Shoah (2018) — Self (archive footage)
13. Israel, Why (1973) — Self - Interviewer
14. Apostrophes (1975) — Self
15. The Clown (2016) — Self
16. Shoah: Four Sisters (2018) — Self - Interviewer
17. A Philosopher in the Arena (2019) — Self
18. 28 minutes (2012) — Self
19. Kulturplatz (2004) — Self
20. Lights And Shadows (2008) — Self - Interviewer
21. Delphine Seyrig (1970)
22. We Shall Not Die Now (2019) — Self (archive footage)
23. Jean-Paul Sartre - A 20 Year Absence? — Claude Lanzmann
24. Claude Lanzmann "On Shoah": A Conversation with Serge Toubiana (2013) — himself
25. Shoah: The Unseen Interviews (2011) — Self - Interviewer
26. Grimme Award (1964) — Self
27. NDR Kultur – Das Journal (2002) — Self