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Claude Lanzmann

French documentary filmmaker (1925–2018)

  • Fame54.8
  • Momentum0.0
  • Wikipedia11.4K
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Lived 1925–2018, aged 93France
FranceFranceDirectorsMovie Director
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  • Era
    1925–2018
    Aged 93
  • Known for
    Shoah
    1985
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Updated 2026-06-25

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.

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  • Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit
  • Honorary Golden Bear
  • honorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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