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Marc Ferro (1924-2021)

Birthplace:
Paris, France

Born:
December 24, 1924

Died:
April 21, 2021

Biography from TheMovieDB

Marc Ferro (24 December 1924 – 21 April 2021) was a French historian. His Ukrainian-Jewish mother was murdered during the Holocaust.  Ferro worked on early twentieth-century European history, specialising in the history of Russia and the USSR, as well as the history of cinema. He was Director of Studies in Social Sciences at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. He was a co-director of the French review Annales and co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary History. He also directed and presented television documentaries on the rise of the Nazis, Lenin and the Russian revolution and on the representation of history in cinema.  Ferro died from COVID-19 complications in Maisons-Laffitte in April 2021, at the age of 96.

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Director:
1970  Lenin According to Lenin
1974  Algeria 1954, The Revolt Of A Colonized
1991  How the Nazis Came to Power
????  Archives de Guerre 1940 - 1945. Vivre au quotidien sous l'occupation

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1970  Lenin According to Lenin
1974  Algeria 1954, The Revolt Of A Colonized
1991  How the Nazis Came to Power
1993  Pétain
2018  Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
????  Archives de Guerre 1940 - 1945. Vivre au quotidien sous l'occupation

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