Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Marceline Loridan-Ivens | |
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Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands | |
Born | Marceline Rozenberg 19 March 1928 Épinal, France |
Died | 18 September 2018 Paris, France | (aged 90)
Occupation(s) | Writer and filmmaker |
Years active | 1962–2014 |
Spouse | Joris Ivens |
Marceline Loridan-Ivens (née Rozenberg; 19 March 1928[1] – 18 September 2018[2]) was a French writer and film director. Her memoir But You Did Not Come Back details her time in Auschwitz-Birkenau.[3] She was married to Joris Ivens.[4]
Biography
Marceline Rozenberg was born to Polish Jewish parents who emigrated to France in 1919. At the beginning of World War II, her family settled in
.She married[when?] Francis Loridan, an engineer. Years later they divorced, but she was allowed to keep his surname.[12]
She joined the French Communist Party in 1955 and left it a year later. She then encountered "deviationists", such as Henri Lefebvre and Edgar Morin,[13] wrote manuscripts for intellectuals, worked in the reprographic service of a polling institute, was bag carrier for the Algerian National Liberation Front and frequented Saint-Germain-des-Prés[14]
In 1961,
From 1972 to 1976, during the Cultural Revolution, Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan worked in China and directed How Yukong Moved the Mountains, a series of 12 films[16] Criticized by Jiang Qing, they had to quickly leave China.[17]
Loridan-Ivens gave lectures and testimonies in colleges and high schools on the
Partial filmography
As director
- 1962: Algérie, année zéro – Documentary co-directed with Jean-Pierre Sergent
- 1968: 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War – Documentary co-directed with Joris Ivens
- 1976: How Yukong Moved the Mountains – Documentary series co-directed with Joris Ivens
- 1976: Une histoire de ballon, lycée n° 31 Pékin – Short film (19 min) co-directed with Joris Ivens
- 1977: Les Kazaks – Documentary co-directed with Joris Ivens
- 1977: Les Ouigours – Documentary co-directed with Joris Ivens
- 1988: A Tale of the Wind – Documentary-fiction co-directed with Joris Ivens
- 2003: La Petite Prairie aux bouleaux
As actress
- 1961: Chronique d'un été
- 1999: Peut-être
- 2008: Une belle croisière
- 2008: Les Bureaux de Dieu
- 2013: Bright Days Ahead
Screenwriter
Awards and nominations
- 1977: César Award for Best Documentary Short Film for Une histoire de ballon, lycée n° 31 Pékin
- 2015: Lilac Academy Award
- 2015: Jean-Jacques-Rousseau Prize for Et tu n'es pas revenu (Grasset)
- 2016: National Jewish Book Award for But You Did Not Come Back: A Memoir[18]
Publications
- 17e parallèle : la guerre du peuple: deux mois sous la terre, cowritten with Joris Ivens, Paris, les Éditeurs français réunis, 1969 (44 illustrations)
- Ma vie balagan, story written with journalist Élisabeth D. Inandiak, ISBN 978-2-221-10658-7
- Et tu n'es pas revenu, story written with ISBN 978-2-246-85391-6
- L'amour après, story written with Judith Perrignon, Grasset, 2018, 162 p.
References
- ^ Article by Andrew Goldstein in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- ^ Filmmaker Loridan-Ivens, Auschwitz companion of Simone Veil, dies
- ^ Publishers Weekly
- ^ Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
- ^ Klarsfeld, 2012.
- ^ Klarsfeld, 2012.
- ^ Steven Erlanger. "Jewish Deportee on Persecution, Past and Present", The New York Times, 1 January 2016.
- ^ Klarsfeld, 2012.
- ^ Klarsfeld, 1978.
- ^ Plus tard, elles deviennent amies. Catherine Durand. «Marceline Loridan-Ivens : "Simone Veil, ma jumelle contradictoire»", Marie Claire; accessed 21 September 2018.
- ^ "Marceline Loridan-Ivens – III du 18 avril 2012 – France Inter". www.franceinter.fr (in French). Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- OCLC 262426758..
- ^ « La clé des camps », Libération, 11 November 2003.
- ^ a b c Jacqueline Remy, "La vie est belle", Vanity Fair, April 2018, pages 78–85.
- ^ « Marceline la tornade », Le Monde, 25 July 2005.
- ^ CANNES CLASSICS – « Joris Ivens et Marceline Loridan, regards sur la Chine en mutation », 21 May 2014.
- ^ Marceline Loridan a filmé la Chine de Mao « Je fus dupée par mon époque » Archived 8 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Rue89, 15 June 2014.
- ^ "National Jewish Book Award | Book awards | LibraryThing". www.librarything.com. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
Sources
- Serge Klarsfeld, Le Mémorial de la Déportation des Juifs de France, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, 1978; New Edition: Association des Fils et Filles des Déportés Juifs de France (FFDJF), 2012
External links
- Marceline Loridan-Ivens at IMDb
- «À réécouter, les propos chocs de Marceline Loridan, ancienne déportée» at France Inter, 27 January 2015.