French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, best known for his masterpiece Shoah, has died in Paris at the age of 92.
Gallimard, the publishing house for Lanzmann's autobiography, said in a statement that he died Thursday morning at a hospital in Paris.
The French director was 59 when the landmark film Shoah -- his second -- came out in 1985.
Considered one of the greatest films ever made about the Holocaust, the nine-and-a-half-hour-long documentary, which was filmed in the 1970s, includes testimony from Jewish victims, German executioners and Polish witnesses.
Shoah won the New York Film Critics Circle award for best non-fiction film and the BAFTA award for best documentary.
The filmmaker was honored at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival with a lifetime achievement honor, the Berlinale Golden Bear.
Lanzmann's final film, Napalm, which premiered at Cannes in 2017, drew on his earlier visits to North Korea as a young journalist, in which he revealed his brief affair with a North Korean nurse.
He subsequently completed a four-part TV series, The Four Sisters, again examining the experiences of Holocaust survivors.
