---
name: "Catherine Zins"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/catherine-zins"
fi1m_id: "catherine-zins"
imdb_id: "nm0957067"
tmdb_id: 24845
wikidata_id: "Q30728204"
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T01:41:35.430625+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Catherine Zins

## Identity

Catherine Zins

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/catherine-zins
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** catherine-zins
- **IMDb ID:** nm0957067
- **TMDB ID:** 24845
- **Wikidata ID:** Q30728204
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30728204, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0957067/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/24845

Editor.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30728204, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0957067/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/24845

## Biography

Catherine Zins is a French film editor and director. She edited the documentary *Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie* (1988), directed by Marcel Ophuls, along with many other documentaries and features from the late 1970s onwards.

She has directed short films and a television episode, and serves as a professor and jury member at La Fémis, the French national film school.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie* (1988), Fi1m 89, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/hotel-terminus-the-life-and-times-of-klaus-barbie.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *From Where They Stood* (2023), Editor
- *L'Inconnue du Maghreb* (2020), Editor
- *Great Expectations* (2019), Editor
- *Vienne avant la nuit* (2017), Editor
- *Nada a ver* (2009), Editor
- *Kigali, des images contre un massacre* (2006), Editor
- *Odessa* (2006), Editor
- *Peinture fraîche* (2002), Editor
- *Les paysans de Citroën* (2001), Editor
- *Swara Mandal* (1997), Editor
- *November Days* (1991), Editor
- *Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie* (1988), Editor — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/hotel-terminus-the-life-and-times-of-klaus-barbie.md)
- *L'Homme qui n'était pas là* (1987), Editor
- *La Baston* (1985), Sound Editor
- *Los Montes* (1982), Assistant Editor
- *The Hamburg Syndrome* (1979), Assistant Editor
- *The Babysitter* (1975), Assistant Editor

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/catherine-zins