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Claude Autant-Lara

Claude Autant-Lara

Director · 1901–2000 · Luzarches, Val-d'Oise, France

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Biography

Claude Autant-Lara (August 5, 1901–February 5, 2000) was a French film director and later Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Born at Luzarches in Val-d'Oise, Autant-Lara was educated in France and at London's Mill Hill School during his mother's exile as a pacifist. Early in his career, he worked as an art director and costume designer, his best-known work in this vein was possibly for Nana (1926), a silent film directed by Jean Renoir. Autant-Lara also acted in the film. As a director, he frequently created provocative movies, saying "if a film does not have venom, it is worthless". In the 1960s, he turned his back on the New Wave movement, and from then on he had no popular successes. On 18 June 1989, he came to public notice again, controversially, when he was elected to the European Parliament as a member of the National Front and the oldest member of the assembly. In his maiden speech, in July 1989, he caused a scandal by expressing his "concerns about the American cultural threat", provoking a walkout by the majority of the deputies. In an interview granted to the monthly magazine Globe in September 1989, he accused ex-President of the European Parliament and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil of playing "ethnic politics" to try and "infiltrate and dominate", saying that "If they try to speak to me about genocide, I say they missed mother Veil!" He also described Nazi gas chambers as a "string of lies". The resulting scandal led to his resignation as European deputy. Moreover, the members of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, of which he was a vice-president for life, voted to prohibit him from taking his seat thenceforth. His memoir, The Rage in the Heart, appeared in 1984. He died at Antibes in Alpes-Maritimes in 2000. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Directed 43

1970s

  1. 1977

    Gloria

    Director

  2. 1973

    Lucien Leuwen

    Director

1960s

  1. 1969

    Potatoes

    Director

  2. 1968

    Franciscan of Bourges

    Director

  3. 1967

    The Oldest Profession

    Director

    53
  4. 1966

    A Woman in White Revolts

    Director

  5. 1965

    A Woman in White

    Director

  6. Black Humor

    Director

  7. 1963

    Josefa's Loot

    Director

  8. Enough Rope

    Director

  9. 1961

    The Count of Monte Cristo

    Director

  10. Thou Shalt Not Kill

    Director

  11. Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!

    Director

  12. 1960

    Lovers Woods

    Director

  13. The Regattas of San Francisco

    Director

1950s

  1. 1959

    The Green Mare

    Director

  2. 1958

    The Gambler

    Director

  3. Love Is My Profession

    Director

    66
  4. 1956

    La Traversée de Paris

    Director

    73
  5. 1955

    Marguerite of the Night

    Director

  6. 1954

    Le Rouge et le Noir

    Director

    66

  7. The Game of Love

    Director

    64
  8. 1953

    Good Lord Without Confession

    Director

  9. 1952

    The Seven Deadly Sins

    Director

    62
  10. 1951

    The Red Inn

    Director

1940s

  1. 1949

    Keep an Eye on Amelia

    Director

  2. 1947

    Devil in the Flesh

    Director

  3. 1946

    Sylvia and the Ghost

    Director

  4. 1943

    Douce

    Director

  5. 1942

    Love Letters

    Director

  6. The Marriage of Chiffon

    Director

1930s

  1. 1939

    The Mysterious Mr. Davis

    Director

  2. Fric-Frac

    Director

    67
  3. 1938

    The Stream

    Assistant Director, Director

  4. 1937

    Courier of Lyons

    Director

  5. 1933

    Ciboulette

    Director

  6. 1932

    Plumber in Love

    Director

  7. 1931

    Buster se marie

    Director

1920s

  1. 1928

    Little Devil May Care

    Assistant Director

  2. To Build a Fire

    Director

  3. 1926

    The Imaginary Voyage

    Assistant Director

  4. 1925

    The Crazy Ray

    Assistant Director

  5. 1923

    News Item

    Director

Wrote 8

1970s

  1. 1977

    Gloria

    Writer

1960s

  1. 1969

    Potatoes

    Writer

1950s

  1. 1954

    Le Rouge et le Noir

    Writer

    66

  2. The Game of Love

    Dialogue, Adaptation

    64
  3. 1953

    Good Lord Without Confession

    Screenplay

  4. 1951

    The Red Inn

    Screenplay

1940s

  1. 1947

    Devil in the Flesh

    Writer

1920s

  1. 1923

    News Item

    Writer

Art department 5

1920s

  1. 1926

    Nana

    Production Design

  2. 1924

    The Inhuman Woman

    Art Direction

  3. 1922

    Don Juan et Faust

    Art Direction

  4. 1920

    The Man of the Sea

    Art Direction, Production Design

  5. Le Carnaval des vérités

    Art Direction

Acted in 4

2010s

  1. 2012

    The Bardot mystery

    Movie

1920s

  1. 1927

    Backbiters

    Movie

  2. 1926

    Nana

    Fauchery

  3. 1920

    The Man of the Sea

    Un des copains (uncredited)

Costume and makeup 4

1940s

  1. 1947

    Devil in the Flesh

    Costume Design

  2. 1943

    Douce

    Costume Design

  3. 1942

    The Marriage of Chiffon

    Costume Design

1920s

  1. 1924

    The Inhuman Woman

    Costume Design

Produced 2

1960s

  1. 1966

    A Woman in White Revolts

    Producer

1930s

  1. 1939

    The Mysterious Mr. Davis

    Producer

Edited 1

1920s

  1. 1923

    News Item

    Editor

Created 1

1970s

  1. 1973

    Lucien Leuwen

    Creator

Appearances5

1980s

  1. 1980

    My Name Is Anna Magnani

    Self