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Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
13

Gender
Female

Birthday
March 19, 1928 (98 years old)

Place of Birth
Épinal, France

Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Biography

Marceline Loridan-Ivens (née Rozenberg; 19 March 1928 – 18 September 2018) was a French writer and film director. Her memoir But You Did Not Come Back details her time in Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was married to Joris Ivens.

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 Vaucluse, where she joined the French Resistance. She and her father, Szlama, were captured by the Gestapo and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau by Convoy 71 on 13 April 1944, along with Simone Veil and Anne-Lise Stern, then to Bergen-Belsen, and eventually to Theresienstadt. The camp was liberated on 10 May 1945 by the Red Army.

She married Francis Loridan, an engineer. Years later they divorced, but she was allowed to keep his surname.

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, 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.

In 1961, Edgar Morin cast her in the film Chronique d'un été, thus making her film debut. In 1963, she met and married the documentary director Joris Ivens. She assisted him in his work and co-directed some of his films, including 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War (1968). They left together for Vietnam, where they met Ho Chi Minh.

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. Criticized by Jiang Qing, they had to quickly leave China.

Loridan-Ivens gave lectures and testimonies in colleges and high schools on the Holocaust.

Known For

Directing

2003The Birch-Tree Meadow...Director
1989A Tale of the Wind...Director
1977The Uyghurs...Director
1977The Kazakhs...Director
1976The Pharmacy: Shanghai...Director
1976The Football Incident...Director
1976How Yukong Moved the Mountains...Director
1976Comment Yukong déplaça les montagnes...Director
1970Meeting with President Ho Chi Minh...Director
1968The 17th Parallel...Director
1966The Threatening Sky...Assistant Director
1965Algeria, Year Zero...Director

Writing

2003The Birch-Tree Meadow...Writer
1989A Tale of the Wind...Screenplay
1989A Tale of the Wind...Dialogue
1977The Uyghurs...Writer
1977The Kazakhs...Writer
1970The People and Their Guns...Writer
1970Meeting with President Ho Chi Minh...Writer
1968The 17th Parallel...Writer

Crew

1989A Tale of the Wind...Presenter

Production

1989A Tale of the Wind...Executive Producer

Editing

1976How Yukong Moved the Mountains...Editor

Camera

1967Far from Vietnam...Camera Operator

Acting

2018La vie balagan de Marceline Loridan-Ivensas Self
2012L'Anniversaire de Bambouas
2012Drancy 1941–1944, the Internment Camp Next Dooras Self
2011Un été + 50as Self
2010La vie après la Shoahas Self
2008God's Officesas Marceline
2001In Praise of Loveas Woman in movie theatre
1998Bride of the Windas
1992Golem, the Spirit of Exileas Le Mère d'Opra
1989A Tale of the Windas Self (uncredited)
1970The People and Their Gunsas
1961Chronicle of a Summeras Self
1954Reflets de Cannesas Self