French filmmaker and writer Claude Lanzmann, whose landmark 1985 documentary Shoah revealed the horrors of the Holocaust over nine hours of chilling eyewitness accounts, died in Paris today aged 92. "Claude Lanzmann died at his home. He had been very, very weak for several days" following a recent hospitalisation for fatigue, a spokeswoman for his publishing house Gallimard told AFP.

Lanzmann had worked constantly since the 1972 release of his first film, "Israel, Why", often taking chapters of his own life as inspiration. Last year for example he presented at the Cannes film festival "Napalm", about his brief but intense romance with a North Korean nurse in 1958. And his last film, "The Four Sisters", was released in French cinemas just this week.