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French director and writer Claude Lanzmann, the creator of the famous "Shoah", considered one of the most important Holocaust films of all time, died at age of 92 years Thursday in Paris, according to telegraph.co.uk.
Lanzmann worked all the time, despite his advanced age, making films that were often inspired by his life
For example, last year he presented at the Cannes Film Festival "Napalm" about his brief and intense adventure with a North Korean nurse in 1958.
But the production that brought fame to the world is "Shoah", launched in 1985. Produced over 11 years, from 1974 to 1985, the Nine-and-a-half-hour film is considered one of the most important films on the Holocaust of all time.
In this documentary, Lanzmann analyzes the Holocaust through interviews with survivors and witnesses and visits to extermination camps. The documentary was conceived in the Forum section at the Berlin Festival in 1986 and has received numerous awards, including the FIPRESCI trophy
Still in Berlin, Lanzmann has received the Golden Bear for any his career in 2012.
Born in Paris in 1925, Lanzmann fought in the French Resistance during the Second World War and then actively supported the independence movement of Algerians in the early 1960s.
His career as a journalist and Filmmaker Marked by Exploring the Holocaust, Anti-Semitism and Politics
Lanzmann first worked as a journalist until the early 1970s and was editor of the magazine Les Temps Modernes, created by Jean-Paul Sartre
At 26, he meets the life companion of Sartre, the symbol of feminism Simone de Beauvoir, then 44 years old. Soon, they became lovers, being one of the few open relationships enjoyed by Sartre and Beauvoir, Lanzmann insisting that it was not "the household three".
Among the films made by Lanzmann are "Israel, Why" (1973), "Tsahal" (1994), "A Visitor of the Living" (1997) and "The Karski Report". 19659004]
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