Claude Lanzmann was a French filmmaker, best known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985), which consists of nine and a half hours of oral testimony from Holocaust survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators presented using contemporary, non-historical footage. He is also known for his 2017 documentary film Napalm, about a love affair he had with a North Korean nurse whilst visiting North Korea in 1958, several years after the Korean War.
- Occupation
- journalist, writer, film director, screenwriter
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- November 27, 1925
- Died
- July 5, 2018
