Claude Lanzmann

The prestige as a filmmaker of Claude Lanzmann (1925-2018) is inevitably associated with "Shoah", the masterpiece of 1985. It is, in effect, a reference creation both for its proposal to represent what is initially unrepresentable (the extermination Nazi of the Jews of Europe), as for the underlying theorization of the problematic of the image in the contemporary world. However, Lanzmann's cinematography is much broader: a total of nine films dealing with the two capital events of Judaism in the 20th century, the Shoah and the State of Israel. Starting from this duality and the way in which it determined the filmmaker's biography, this book proposes a detailed analysis, film by film, of the entire production of the French filmmaker. The tour allows detecting the aesthetic but also ethical-political tensions that run through a renovating and controversial filmography. Finally, a work that accounts for all of Lanzmann.