Shoah director Claude Lanzmann passed away Entertainment

The director died in his hometown of Paris after being very weak for a few days, said a family spokesman to the French newspaper

Lanzmann who had to hide during the Second World War World. With his family and at the age of seventeen Frans Verzet, is best known for his film Shoah (1985), about the persecution of Jews during the Second World War. This was also broadcast on television in the Netherlands

The preparation and functioning of Shoah took almost twelve years. This film has received several international awards. But also his other films, including Why Israel of 1973, Sobibor (2001) and in 1945 Napalm were all registered in the official selection in Cannes [19659003] His death comes one day after his last film The Four Sisters in France, in which four survivors of the persecution of the Jews tell their story. The stories of these four women were previously not included in the film Shoah. He said about it this week in an interview: "I did not know what to do with these interviews, they work alone, I met these women and I knew each of them was telling a unique story. and extraordinary, incorporating them into Shoah would exceed its purpose. "