France pays tribute to the director of the Holocaust, Claude Lanzmann

France paid a national tribute on Thursday to revered filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, whose nine-hour documentary "Shoah" is considered the best of the Holocaust.

The deceased director and writer Last week, at the age of 92, he had to hide from the Nazis with his Jewish family in central France during the Second World War, then let them join the Resistance at 17 [19659004]. Invalides, which houses the tomb of Napoleon, with the coffin of Lanzmann draped in the French tricolor flag carried in the courtyard by a military guard of honor

"You have made exist those who do not do it anymore", Philippe said of his masterpiece the wartime massacre of six million Jews through the heartbreaking testimonies of the survivors.

"" Shoah "is a unique work on a single crime, it's a cry of defiance and a refusal to forget," the first mini

Lanzmann even managed Secretly filming the concentration camp guards while talking about their role in the murder, and was beaten by a group of thugs after his cover was blown while he was filming a former Nazi officer.

'The Orpheus of the Holocaust & # 39;

Philip says that Lanzmann, a communist in his youth, had learned of his remarkable courage and sense of sacrifice from his comrades during the war.

The resistance of a Jewish schoolboy in occupied France was to refuse to write an essay to the glory of his collaborationist leader, Marshal Pétain. He later fled to the hills to trap German patrols.

The philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy compared him to Orpheus in his speech, the mythical poet who returns from the land of the dead, working tirelessly to perpetuate the memory of the Holocaust.

He described Lanzmann as a "committed intellectual and quarrelsome" who was as intrepid in his life as when he was a young member of the Resistance. "I am completely against death," Lanzmann told AFP last year. the death of his only son, Felix, from cancer to 23 years old.

The director rests next to him in the family grave at the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris. His former lover, the feminist writer and thinker Simone de Beauvoir, is buried nearby.

Lanzmann directed Les Temps Modernes, the legendary literary critic that she and her partner Jean-Paul Sartre had founded until her death.

The final film, "The Four Sisters", about four survivors of the Holocaust, was broadcast Wednesday in French cinemas. MKH

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