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Romain Gary
Writer 1914 - 1980

Romain Gary

Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]

Romain Gary (21 May [O.S. 8 May] 1914 – 2 December 1980), born Roman Kacew, and also known by the pen name Émile Ajar), was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt under two names. He is... Read full bio →

Filmography

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5 titles
White Dog

White Dog

Samuel Fuller 1982 1h 30m 8.3

A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that's been raised to kill Black people.

Kill!

Kill!

Romain Gary 1971 1h 53m 4.0

Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.

Les oiseaux vont mourir au Pérou

Les oiseaux vont mourir au Pérou

Romain Gary 1968 1h 35m

A nymphomaniac young woman, unsatisfied by her husband, searches for sex in the brothels of a seaside town while he sets to kill her.

The Longest Day

The Longest Day

Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton 1962 2h 58m 8.1

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach.

The Roots of Heaven

The Roots of Heaven

John Huston 1958 2h 1m

In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist ecologist starts a campaign of public awareness to help save the African elephants from extinction.

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