Nothing he hasn’t done, nowhere he hasn’t been
Adam Shatz: Claude Lanzmann, 5 April 2012
The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir
by Claude Lanzmann, translated by Frank Wynne.
Atlantic, 528 pp., £25, March 2012,978 1 84887 360 5 Show More
by Claude Lanzmann, translated by Frank Wynne.
Atlantic, 528 pp., £25, March 2012,
“... withdrew funding after a few years, before a single reel was shot. Lanzmann turned to the new prime minister, Menachem Begin, who put him in touch with a former member of Mossad, a ‘secret man devoid of emotions’. He promised that Israel would sponsor the film so long as it ran no longer than two hours and was completed in 18 months. Lanzmann agreed ... ”