Overview
- His death at 98 was confirmed by a family death notice reported by Swiss and German outlets, with Jerusalem named as the place of death.
- The funeral is scheduled for December 13 in Jerusalem and is to be streamed live on YouTube, according to the notice shared with news agencies.
- He earned six Oscars tied to his productions, including documentaries such as One Day in September and American Dream and foreign-language winners like The Garden of the Finzi-Continis.
- He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and received a lifetime award from the Cinema for Peace Foundation in 2019.
- In recent years he moved from Basel to live with his son in Israel and continued work on a film adaptation of Fred Uhlman’s The Reunion.