Resurrection

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris in 1925 and grew up in rural France. He joined the French Resistance during the Second World War and was deeply involved in a number of dangerous operations. Following the war he was educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and the Sorbonne, and he soon became a member of the intellectual circle of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. He began his career as a filmmaker in the early 1970s and released Shoah, his masterwork, in 1985. Critic Richard Brody has written that the film was “instantly historic” and stands among “the most distinguished works of art to come out of the late twentieth century.”