07-05-2018, 03:46 PM
French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann:
Claude Lanzmann (French: [lanzman]; 27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985).
Lanzmann was born in Paris, the son of Paulette (Grobermann) and Armand Lanzmann.[1] His family was Jewish, and had immigrated to France from Eastern Europe.[2] He was the brother of writer Jacques Lanzmann. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal (fr) in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II.[3] He joined the French resistance at the age of 17 and fought in the Auvergne.[4] Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed the 1960 antiwar petition Manifesto of the 121.[5]
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From 1952 to 1959 he lived with [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir]Simone de Beauvoir. In 1963 he married French actress Judith Magre. They divorced in 1971, and he next married Angelika Schrobsdorff, a German-Jewish writer.[6] He divorced a second time and married Dominique Petithory in 1995. He was the father of Angélique Lanzmann, born in 1950 and Félix Lanzmann (1993–2017[7]).
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.[8] In 2009 he published his memoirs under the title Le lièvre de Patagonie ("The Patagonian Hare").
Lanzmann died on 5 July 2018 at his Paris home, after having been "very very weak" for several days. He was 92. His death came one day after the theatrical release of Les Quatre Soeurs (The Four Sisters), which features testimonials from four Holocaust survivors not included in his Shoah.[9][10]
From Wikipedia.
Claude Lanzmann (French: [lanzman]; 27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985).
Lanzmann was born in Paris, the son of Paulette (Grobermann) and Armand Lanzmann.[1] His family was Jewish, and had immigrated to France from Eastern Europe.[2] He was the brother of writer Jacques Lanzmann. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal (fr) in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II.[3] He joined the French resistance at the age of 17 and fought in the Auvergne.[4] Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed the 1960 antiwar petition Manifesto of the 121.[5]
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From 1952 to 1959 he lived with [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir]Simone de Beauvoir. In 1963 he married French actress Judith Magre. They divorced in 1971, and he next married Angelika Schrobsdorff, a German-Jewish writer.[6] He divorced a second time and married Dominique Petithory in 1995. He was the father of Angélique Lanzmann, born in 1950 and Félix Lanzmann (1993–2017[7]).
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.[8] In 2009 he published his memoirs under the title Le lièvre de Patagonie ("The Patagonian Hare").
Lanzmann died on 5 July 2018 at his Paris home, after having been "very very weak" for several days. He was 92. His death came one day after the theatrical release of Les Quatre Soeurs (The Four Sisters), which features testimonials from four Holocaust survivors not included in his Shoah.[9][10]
From Wikipedia.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.