Marc Ferro

Known for: Directing
Born: December 24, 1924
Died: April 21, 2021
Birthplace: Paris, France

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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How the Nazis Came to Power 1991
Director
Algeria 1954, The Revolt Of A Colonized 1974
Director
Lenin According to Lenin 1970
Director
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution 2017
Writer
Marc Ferro, la passion de l'Histoire 1999
as Lui-même
Pétain 1993
Writer

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