Claude Lanzmann Biography (1925-)

Born 1925 in Paris, France.

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Director
Documentaries
Pourquoi Israel? (also known as Israel, Why?), New Yorker,1973
(And producer) Un vivant qui passe (also known as A Visitor from the Living), New Yorker, 1977 then 1997.
(And producer) Shoah, New Yorker, 1985
Tsahal, President Films, 1994
Sobibor, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures (also known as Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m.), Mars Films, 2001
Film Appearances
Documentaries
Un vivant qui passe (also known as A Visitor from the Living), New Yorker, 1977 then 1997.
Hotel Terminus: Klaus Barbie, His Life and Times (also known as Hotel Terminus, Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, and Hotel Terminus: Klaus Barbie et son temps), 1988
Autopsie d'un mensonge--La negationnisme, Les Acacias, 2000

Television Work
Specials
Producer and director, Shoah (documentary), New Yorker, then PBS,c. 1988.
WRITINGS
Screenplays
Documentaries
Elise ou la vraie vie, 1970
Pourquoi Israel? (also known as Israel, Why?), New Yorker,1973
Shoah, New Yorker, 1985
Tsahal, President Films, 1994
Sobibor, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures (also known as Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m.), Mars Films, 2001
Books
Editor, The Bird Has No Wings: Letters of Peter Schwiefert, translated from the French by Barbara Lucas, Search, 1976
Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust, Pantheon, 1985
Shoah: The Complete Text of the Acclaimed Holocaust Film, 1995
Other Writings
Contributor to periodicals, including the French newspaper Le monde; also worked as editor, later director, of Les temps modernes.