# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/claude-lanzmann
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:57:13.912Z

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name: "Claude Lanzmann"
slug: "claude-lanzmann"
description: "Claude Lanzmann 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."
tagline: "French documentary filmmaker (1925–2018)"
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birthDate: "1925-11-27"
deathDate: "2018-07-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump