Claude Lanzmann (1925-2018)

Clare O'Farrell

9 July 2018

Sept. 14, 1982 (from L to R): French intellectuals Maxime Rodinson, Pierre Nora, Michel Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir, Alain Finkielkraut, Jean Daniel, Claude Lanzmann and Regis Debray pose at the Elysee Palace after a meeting with then French President Francois Mitterrand. /VCG Photo

Editor: Foucault is behind Simone de Beauvoir

Claude Lanzmann, director of Holocaust film ‘Shoah’, dies at 92. CGTN, 6 July 2018

French filmmaker and writer Claude Lanzmann, whose landmark 1985 documentary “Shoah” revealed the horrors of the Holocaust over nine hours of chilling eyewitness accounts, died in Paris on Thursday aged 92.