A native of Switzerland, Cohn received Oscars for his work on 1961’s Le ciel et la boue (shared with René Lafuite), a documentary about a perilous expedition in what was then known as Dutch New Guinea; 1990’s American Dream (shared with director Barbara Kopple), about a workers’ strike at a Hormel meat-packing plant in Minnesota; and 1999’s One Day in September (shared with director Kevin Macdonald), about the murder of 11 Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Munich Olympics.
From 1967-73, he collaborated with master Italian filmmaker Vittorio De Sica on six films, including The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970). That drama, which centered on a Jewish family in fascist Italy, won the Golden Bear…
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