Jean-Claude Lubtchansky (2 December 1930 – 14 October 2020[2]) was a French film editor, documentary and television director.
Best known as a documentary filmmaker, Jean-Claude Lubtchansky was the assistant director of two 1958 documentaries, Cités du soleil and Le grand œuvre : panorama de l'industrie française,[3][4] and editor of the British film Lord of the Flies (1963).
[5] In 1976, he produced a documentary film about the Armenian mystic and philosopher George Gurdjieff, which was broadcast in 1978 on TF1.
In 1996, he directed Les 13 Vies de Corto Maltese, a documentary that follows the anarchist sailor and defender of lost causes and his creator through some of his fascinating journeys.
[7] He was also known for making the majority of documentary adaptations of the monographic series "Découvertes Gallimard",[8][9] three of which were co-produced with the Louvre Museum.