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Claude Lanzmann

1925 - 2018

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Claude Lanzmann is the 164th most popular film director (up from 206th in 2019), the 1,136th most popular biography from France (up from 1,362nd in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Film Director.

Claude Lanzmann is most famous for his documentary film Shoah, which is a nine-and-a-half hour long film that tells the story of the Holocaust.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Claude Lanzmann ranks 164 out of 2,041Before him are Abel Gance, Josef von Sternberg, Peter Weir, Lewis Milestone, Louis Malle, and Jean Vigo. After him are Jacques Rivette, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Kim Ki-duk, Jan Švankmajer, Ettore Scola, and Tom Holland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Claude Lanzmann ranks 78Before him are Frei Otto, Tom Gehrels, John Pople, John Cocke, Celia Cruz, and József Bozsik. After him are Alain Touraine, Michele Ferrero, Veljko Kadijević, Masanori Tokita, Oscar Peterson, and Robert Rauschenberg. Among people deceased in 2018, Claude Lanzmann ranks 63Before him are Osamu Shimomura, Stéphane Audran, Michael Halliday, Reynaldo Bignone, Francis Lai, and Wim Kok. After him are Tsukasa Hosaka, Milena Dravić, Joël Robuchon, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Keith O'Brien, and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Lanzmann ranks 1,136 out of 6,770Before him are François Leclerc du Tremblay (1577), Louis Malle (1932), Jean Vigo (1905), Christophe Plantin (1520), Jean-Pierre Papin (1963), and Victorien Sardou (1831). After him are Heinrich Kramer (1430), Hugh of Italy (880), François Cevert (1944), James II of Majorca (1243), Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754), and Pierre Schaeffer (1910).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Claude Lanzmann ranks 25Before him are Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1953), Marcel Carné (1906), Abel Gance (1889), Louis Malle (1932), and Jean Vigo (1905). After him are Jacques Rivette (1928), Alice Guy-Blaché (1873), Jacques Demy (1931), Bertrand Blier (1939), Julien Duvivier (1896), and Bertrand Tavernier (1941).