Claude Lanzmann

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FILE - Monday, May 14, 2001 file photo of French director Claude Lanzmann during a photocall for his film "Sobibor," at the 54th International Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. An epic French documentary about the Holocaust, dubbed into Farsi, is to be broadcast on a satellite channel in Iran as part of a campaign to promote understanding between Jews and Muslims and to fight Holocaust denial. Filmmaker Claude Lanzmann's renowned 9-plus-hour film "Shoah" includes testimony from concentration camp survivors and employees about the slaughter of millions of Jews in Europe during World War II. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)