SHORT TAKES : Documentary Maker Rossif Dies
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PARIS — Frederic Rossif, a Yugoslav-born documentary filmmaker whose subjects included Pablo Picasso, African wildlife and Nazi Germany, died of a heart attack Wednesday, his production company said. He was 68.
He won France’s coveted Jean Vigo award in 1963 for “To Die in Madrid,” about the Spanish Civil War, and was considered one of Europe’s foremost documentary filmmakers.
One of his most recent major works was a three-hour television documentary about Nazi Germany, “From Nuremberg to Nuremberg.”
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