Jean-Claude Lubtchansky

Jean-Claude Lubtchansky (2 December 1930 – 14 October 2020 ) was a French film editor, documentary and television director.

Career Best known as a documentary filmmaker, Jean-Claude Lubtchansky was the assistant director of two 1958 documentaries, and , and editor of the British film Lord of the Flies (1963). In 1976, he produced a documentary film about the Armenian mystic and philosopher George Gurdjieff, which was broadcast in 1978 on TF1. He directed two television films, and , in 1980 and 1982, respectively. In 1996, he directed , a documentary that follows the anarchist sailor and defender of lost causes and his creator through some of his fascinating journeys. He was also known for making the majority of documentary adaptations of the monographic series "Découvertes Gallimard", three of which were co-produced with the Louvre Museum.

Filmography As director 1962: Ourane (short film) 1967: Ici, ailleurs ou dans le métro (short film) 1967: Dim Dam Dom (some episodes) 1967: One (Chroniques de France, nº 19) 1968: Pézenas, un village français (Chroniques de France, nº 30) 1970: Lumina, pièce pour douze cordes et bande magnétique d'Ivo Malec (episode of Les Grandes répétitions) 1973: La Rose rouge (episode of Ce que Paris chante) 1974: Hannah Arendt (episode of Un certain regard) 1979: (some episodes) 1980: Gandhi, apôtre de la non-violence (episode of Les Idées et les hommes) 1980: 1947 : La première crise de la IVº république 1980: Louis XI, un seul roi pour la France 1982: Saint Louis ou La royauté bienfaisante 1982: Le triange à quatre côtés (episode of De bien étranges affaires) 1991: The Watch on the Somme (episode of Harvests of Iron) 1995: Yukio Mishima (episode of Un siècle d'écrivains) 1995: Cher Père Noël 1996: Les 13 Vies de Corto Maltese 1997: La Porte enchantée 1998: Once Upon a Time in Mesopotamia 1998: 1999: 1999: On the Road to Timbuktu: Explorers in Africa 2000: Les Cités perdues des Mayas 2000: Champollion: A Scribe for Egypt 2001: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance 2002: 2002: Angkor : la forêt de pierre

As assistant director 1958: Cités du soleil 1958: Le grand œuvre : panorama de l'industrie française

As editor 1962: Le Thé à la menthe 1963: Lord of the Flies 1964: 1964: 4 fois D 1978: The Last Campaign

As producer 1978: Georges Gurdjieff 1979: Meetings with Remarkable Men (production associate)