About

Known credits:
30
Birthday:
1928-03-19
Place of birth:
Épinal, France
Website:
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Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Overview

Marceline Loridan-Ivens (née Rozenberg; 19 March 1928[1] – 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 [when?] 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

Acting
2018 La vie balagan de Marceline Loridan-Ivens Actor Self N/A
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2012 Drancy 1941–1944, the Internment Camp Next Door Actor Self N/A
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2011 Un été + 50 Actor Self 59
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2010 La vie après la Shoah Actor Self N/A
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2008 God's Offices Actor Marceline 59
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1998 Bride of the Wind Actor N/A
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1989 A Tale of the Wind Actor Self (uncredited) 59
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1970 The People and Their Guns Actor N/A
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1961 Chronicle of a Summer Actor Self 61
Fair

Directing
2003 The Birch-Tree Meadow Directing Director 59
Average
1989 A Tale of the Wind Directing Director 59
Average
1977 The Uyghurs Directing Director 59
Average
1977 The Kazakhs Directing Director 59
Average
1976 How Yukong Moved the Mountains Directing Director 58
Average
1976 The Football Incident Directing Director N/A
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1976 The Pharmacy: Shanghai Directing Director N/A
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1976 Comment Yukong déplaça les montagnes Directing Director N/A
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1968 The 17th Parallel Directing Director 59
Average
1966 The Threatening Sky Directing Assistant Director N/A
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1965 Algeria, Year Zero Directing Director 59
Average

Writing
2003 The Birch-Tree Meadow Writing Writer 59
Average
1989 A Tale of the Wind Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1989 A Tale of the Wind Writing Dialogue 59
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1977 The Kazakhs Writing Writer 59
Average
1970 The People and Their Guns Writing Writer N/A
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1968 The 17th Parallel Writing Writer 59
Average

Production
1989 A Tale of the Wind Production Executive Producer 59
Average

Camera
1967 Far from Vietnam Camera Camera Operator 59
Average

Crew
1989 A Tale of the Wind Crew Presenter 59
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Editing
1976 How Yukong Moved the Mountains Editing Editor 58
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