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Jorge Semprún Maura was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962, during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer for the exiled Communist Party of Spain, but was expelled from the party in 1964. After the death of Franco and change to a democratic government, he served as Minister of Culture in Spain's socialist government from 1988 to 1991. He was a screenwriter for two successive films by the Greek director Costa-Gavras, Z (1969) and The Confession (1970), which dealt with the theme of persecution by governments. For his work on the films The War Is Over (1966) and Z (1969) Semprún was nominated for the Academy Award. In 1996, he became the first non-French author elected to the Académie Goncourt, which awards an annual literary prize.
Birth Name
Jorge Semprún Maura
Born
Monday, 10 December 1923
Died
Tuesday, 07 June 2011
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Valérian, histoire d'une création | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2017 |
Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald | Self | 2012 |
Los caminos de la memoria | Self | 2010 |
Spanish Hollywood | Self | 2010 |
La grande librairie | Self | 2008 |
Bucharest, Memory Lost | Self | 2008 |
Els matins a TV3 | Self | 2004 |
Nadie escuchaba | Self | 1987 |
Une approche d'Alain Resnais, révolutionnaire discret | Self | 1980 |
A Grin Without A Cat | Narrator / Narrator (voice) | 1977 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Valérian, histoire d'une création | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2017 |
Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald | Self | 2012 |
Los caminos de la memoria | Self | 2010 |
Spanish Hollywood | Self | 2010 |
La grande librairie | Self | 2008 |
Bucharest, Memory Lost | Self | 2008 |
Els matins a TV3 | Self | 2004 |
Nadie escuchaba | Self | 1987 |
Une approche d'Alain Resnais, révolutionnaire discret | Self | 1980 |
A Grin Without A Cat | Narrator / Narrator (voice) | 1977 |
You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London | Self / Self - Interviewee | 1971 |
I Love You, I Love You | Un invité de la réception | 1968 |
The War Is Over | Récitant / Narrator | 1966 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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Les deux mémoires | 1974 |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1970 | Oscar | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | Nominated |
1968 | Oscar | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen | Nominated |