Claude Lanzmann
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Claude Lanzmann (born 1925 in Paris) is a Paris-based filmmaker.
Lanzmann's most renowned work is the nine-and-a-half hour documentary film Shoah (1985), which is an oral history of the Holocaust, and is broadly considered to be the foremost film on the subject. Of particular note is that Shoah is made without the use of any documentary footage, and only reference to first-person testimony from Jewish, Polish, and German individuals. Simultaneously, the complete text appeared in English translation, with introductions by Lanzmann and Simone de Beauvoir, providing multiple keys to the philosophical and linguistic preoccupations of the producers. It was also through Shoah that many viewers were first introduced to the work of American Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg.
Lanzmann has attacked people for attempting the project of understanding Hitler, calling the entire idea "obscene", and attempted to silence even Holocaust survivors who nonetheless engage in doing so.[1]
Lanzmann is a director of the journal Les Temps Modernes, which was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
[edit] Filmography
- Israel, Why (Pourquoi Israel) (1974)
- Shoah (1985)
- Tsahal (1994)
- A Visitor from the Living (1997)
- Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m (2001)
[edit] Bibliography
- Lanzmann, Claude (1985), Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust;The Complete Text of the Film, New York: Random House
[edit] References
- ^ Rosenbaum, Ron (1999). "Claude Lanzmann and the War Against the Question Why", Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-679-43151-9.
