Marceline Loridan-Ivens

The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is acting, literary activity and film direction. Distinctions recorded are Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, César Award for Best Documentary Short Film, Jean-Jacques-Rousseau Award and Commander of the National Order of Merit.

• Birth Name — Marceline Rozenberg • Born — 19 March 1928 • Birthplace — Épinal, France • Died — 18 September 2018 • Place of death — Paris, France • Occupation — Writer and filmmaker • Spouse — Joris Ivens • Years Active — 1962–2014

Marceline Rozenberg was born on 19 March 1928 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 met figures such as Henri Lefebvre and Edgar Morin, 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 Criticised by Jiang Qing, they had to quickly leave China. The title of her 2003 film La petite prairie aux bouleaux (The little prairie of birches) is the literal translation of "Birkenau".

She first married Francis Loridan, an engineer. Years later they divorced, but she was allowed to keep his surname. She later married Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens. They had no children, and Ivens died on 28 June 1989.

• 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

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

Marceline Loridan-Ivens was recorded at birth as Marcelline Rozenberg. The authorities additionally record the headings Marceline Loridan, Marceline Rozenberg, Marceline Ivens, Marcelline Rozenberg and Marcelline Loridan-Ivens. Her recorded language was French. She married Joris Ivens. Recorded as actress, screenwriter, french resistance fighter, writer and director.

• 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, co-written with journalist Élisabeth D. Inandiak, Robert Laffont, 2008 • Et tu n'es pas revenu, co-written with Judith Perrignon, Grasset, 2015 • L'amour après, story written with Judith Perrignon, Grasset, 2018, 162pp.

• 2003: La Petite Prairie aux bouleaux