Claude Lanzmann

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Claude Lanzmann
Lanzmann in 2014
Born	(1925-11-27)27 November 1925 Bois-Colombes, France
Died	5 July 2018(2018-07-05) (aged 92) Paris, France
Occupation	Filmmaker
Years active	1970–2018
Known for	Shoah (1985)
Spouses	Judith Magre ​ ​ (m. 1963; div. 1971)​ Angelika Schrobsdorff ​ ​ (m. 1971, divorced)​ Dominique Petithory ​ (m. 1995)​
Partner	Simone de Beauvoir (1952–1959)
Children	2

Claude Lanzmann (French: [lanzman]; 27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker. He is known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985), which consists of nine and a half hours of oral testimony from Holocaust survivors, without historical footage. He is also known for his 2017 documentary film Napalm, about a love affair he had with a North Korean nurse whilst visiting North Korea in 1958, several years after the Korean War.

In addition to filmmaking, Lanzmann had also been the chief editor of Les Temps Modernes, a French literary magazine.