French film director Claude Lanzmann, whose nine-and-a-half-hour masterpiece Shoah bore unflinching witness to the Holocaust through the testimonies of Jewish victims and German executioners, has died at the age of 92.
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Gallimard, the publishing house for Lanzmann's autobiography, said he died on Thursday morning at a Paris hospital.
Shoah, which was filmed in the 1970s during Lanzmann's trips to the barren Polish landscapes where the slaughter of Jews was planned and executed, viewed the Holocaust as an event in the present, rather than as history.
It contained no archival footage and no musical score - just the landscape, trains and people's recounted memories.
Australian Associated Press