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Lanzmann attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand . He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in Auvergne . Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed the 1960 antiwar petition Manifesto of the 121 . Lanzmann's most renowned work is the nine-and-a-half hour documentary film Shoah (1985), which is an oral history of the Holocaust , and is broadly considered to be the foremost film on the subject. Of particular note is that Shoah is made without the use of any historical footage, and only utilizes first-person testimony from Jewish, Polish, and German individuals, and current footage of several Holocaust-related sites. Lanzmann persuaded Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski to be a witness in Shoah by calling forth—once again—his historical responsibility. Simultaneously, the complete text appeared in English translation, with introductions by Lanzmann and Simone de Beauvoir , providing multiple keys to the philosophical and linguistic preoccupations of the producers. It was also through Shoah that many viewers were first introduced to the work of American Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg . Lanzmann has disagreed, sometimes angrily, with attempts to understand the why of Hitler, stating that the evil of Hitler cannot or should not be explained and that to do so is immoral and an obscenity. Lanzmann is chief editor of the journal Les Temps Modernes , which was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.1
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Claude Lanzmann is a Paris -based filmmaker and professor of documentary film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee , Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is a director of the magazine Les Temps Modernes , which was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir . His most renowned work is the nine-and-a-half hour documentary film Shoah ( 1985 ), which has been called an oral history of the Holocaust .
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Claude Lanzmann ( ; born 27 November 1925) is a French filmmaker known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985).
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Claude Lanzmann ( ; 27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985).
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French journalist, film director Claude Lanzmann ( ; 27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985).
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French documentary filmmaker (1925–2018) Claude Lanzmann ( French: [lanzman] ; 27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker, best 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.
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paris -based filmmaker and professor of documentary film at the european graduate school in saas-fee
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french filmmaker
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