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      • 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.


      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 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.


      Partial filmography




      = As director

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      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

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      1961: Chronique d'un été
      1999: Peut-être
      2008: Une belle croisière
      2008: Les Bureaux de Dieu
      2013: Bright Days Ahead


      = Screenwriter

      =
      2003: La Petite Prairie aux bouleaux


      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


      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, Robert Laffont, 2008 ISBN 978-2-221-10658-7
      Et tu n'es pas revenu, story written with Judith Perrignon, Grasset, 2015 ISBN 978-2-246-85391-6
      L'amour après, story written with Judith Perrignon, Grasset, 2018, 162 p.


      References




      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.

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