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Jorge Semprún
Writer 1923 - 2011

Jorge Semprún

Madrid, Spain

Jorge Semprún Maura was a Spanish writer and politician. 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... Read full bio →

Filmography

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7 titles
K

K

Alexandre Arcady 1997 2h 15m

In this French crime film, set during the time of the Gulf War, an elderly German tourist is murdered in Paris by junk dealer Joseph Katz (Pinkas Braun), a friend of Paris detective Sam Bellamy (singer Patrick Bruel). Romantically involved with the victim's daughter Emma Guter (Isabella Ferrari), Bellamy covers up the crime he witnessed.

Une femme à sa fenêtre

Une femme à sa fenêtre

Pierre Granier-Deferre 1976 1h 50m 7.0

Romy Schneider plays an aristocratic woman in 1936 Greece, who amuses herself pursuing a shallow loveless affair with a nobleman, but unexpectedly falls in love with a political activist.

Section spéciale

Section spéciale

Costa-Gavras 1975 1h 50m 8.0

In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.

Stavisky...

Stavisky...

Alain Resnais 1974 2h 6.5

Irrestisible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of French industrial and political elite during the early 30s.

L'aveu

L'aveu

Costa-Gavras 1970 2h 19m 9.3

The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.

Z

Z

Costa-Gavras 1969 2h 2m 7.7

The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.

La guerre est finie

La guerre est finie

Alain Resnais 1966 1h 57m 8.0

A veteran Republican fighter's ardent dedication to overthrow of Franco's regime is challenged. He realizes that the center of political struggle has shifted away from him, and is forced to make choices about his life and political ideals.

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