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Claude Lanzmann made a particular presentation at final yr's Cannes movie competition
Claude Lanzmann, the French filmmaker finest identified for his landmark Holocaust documentary Shoah, has died at dwelling in Paris at the age of 92.
The author had been "very, very weak" for some days, publishing home Gallimard advised AFP information company.
The 1985 movie Shoah, which runs for greater than 9 hours, is taken into account the foremost movie on the Holocaust.
It makes use of testimonies from victims to explain the homicide of six million Jews by the Nazis throughout World War Two.
Lanzmann was born in Paris in 1925, the son of Jewish emigrants from Eastern Europe.
When battle broke out he was a member of a communist youth organization and joined the French resistance to combat Nazi occupation.
He went on to review literature and philosophy and in the early 1950s met the thinker Jean-Paul Sartre and the author and mental Simone de Beauvoir. Lanzmann later lived with Simone de Beauvoir for a number of years.
His documentary Shoah was the results of 12 years work and greater than 300 hours of interviews shot between 1974 and 1981.
It gained crucial acclaim and a number of other awards together with a Bafta for finest documentary. Simone de Beauvoir known as it a masterpiece.
"If I am unstoppable it's because of the truth, which I believe in profoundly," he mentioned final yr in an interview with AFP.
"When I look at what I did in my life, I believe that I came to represent the truth, I never played with it."
Lanzmann by no means retired and his closing movie, The Four Sisters, was solely just lately launched in France.