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Claude Lanzmann (27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985).
Lanzmann was born on 27 November 1925 in Paris, France, the son of Paulette (née Grobermann) and Armand Lanzmann. His family was Jewish, and had immigrated to France from The Russian Empire. He was the brother of writer Jacques Lanzmann. Lanzmann attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. While his family disguised their identity and went into hiding during World War II, he joined the French resistance at the age of 17, along with his father and brother, and fought in Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed the 1960 antiwar petition Manifesto of the 121.
Lanzmann was the chief editor of the journal Les Temps Modernes, founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and lecturer at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. In 2009 he published his memoirs under the title Le lièvre de Patagonie ("The Patagonian Hare").
20 credits across 4 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | All I Had Was Nothingness | Self (archive footage) | Film |
| 2013 | The Last of the Unjust | Self - Interviewer | Film |
| 2013 | The Last of the Unjust | Director | Film |
| 2013 | The Last of the Unjust | Writer | Film |
| 2011 | Shoah: The Unseen Interviews | Self - Interviewer | Film |
| 2011 | Shoah: The Unseen Interviews | Director | Film |
| 2010 | The Karski Report | Self - Interviewer | Film |
| 2010 | The Karski Report | Director | Film |
| 2010 | The Karski Report | Writer | Film |
| 2001 | Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. | Self - Interviewer | Film |
| 2001 | Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. | Director | Film |
| 2001 | Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. | Writer | Film |
| 1999 | A Visitor from the Living | Self - Interviewer | Film |
| 1999 | A Visitor from the Living | Director | Film |
| 1999 | A Visitor from the Living | Writer | Film |
| 1999 | A Visitor from the Living | Producer | Film |
| 1988 | Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie | Self | Film |
| 1985 | Shoah | Self - Interviewer | Film |
| 1985 | Shoah | Director | Film |
| 1970 | Elise, or Real Life | Writer | Film |
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