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France will pay homage Thursday to filmmaker and writer Claude Lanzmann, known for his historical documentary on the Holocaust, who died last week at the age of 92, his family said Tuesday in the daily Le World.
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe will deliver a speech at a ceremony at the Military Hospital and the Invalides Museum in Paris, his office says
Lanzmann will then be buried in his family vault at the Montparnasse Cemetery in the French capital.
Shoah, the revered director's historical documentary in 1985, reveals the horrors of the Holocaust during nine hours of eyewitness accounts
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He worked constantly since the release in 1972 of his first film, "Israel, Why," often inspiring chapters of his own life.
Last year, he presented at the Cannes Film Festival "Napalm", about his brief but intense love story with a North Korean nurse in 1958.
And his latest film "The Four Sisters", on four survivors of the Holocaust, was released in French theaters this week.
The Liberation of "Shoah" (the Hebrew word for "calamity" often used for the Holocaust), which is widely regarded as the most haunting movie about the murder of six million Jews during the Second World War who propelled it worldwide.
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