Claude Autant-Lara
Directing
Born: August 5, 1901 · Luzarches, Val-d'Oise, France
Died: February 5, 2000 (aged 98)
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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
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The Oldest Profession
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La Traversée de Paris
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Devil in the Flesh
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Douce
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Love Is My Profession
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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The Stream
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The Stream
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The Seven Deadly Sins
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Le Rouge et le Noir
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The Gambler
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Franciscan of Bourges
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Fric-Frac
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Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
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The Game of Love
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
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The Red Inn
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Josefa's Loot
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Marguerite of the Night
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The Crazy Ray
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A Woman in White
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Enough Rope
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Lovers Woods
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The Marriage of Chiffon
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Ciboulette
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The Green Mare
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Good Lord Without Confession
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A Woman in White Revolts
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Black Humor
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Sylvia and the Ghost
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Keep an Eye on Amelia
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The Mysterious Mr. Davis
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The Regattas of San Francisco
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Courier of Lyons
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Love Letters
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Little Devil May Care
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The Imaginary Voyage
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Plumber in Love
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Buster se marie
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News Item
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Potatoes
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To Build a Fire
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Gloria
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Lucien Leuwen
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Devil in the Flesh
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Le Rouge et le Noir
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The Game of Love
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The Game of Love
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The Red Inn
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Good Lord Without Confession
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Potatoes
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Devil in the Flesh
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Douce
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Nana
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The Inhuman Woman
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The Inhuman Woman
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Le Carnaval des vérités
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The Marriage of Chiffon
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The Man of the Sea
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The Man of the Sea
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Don Juan et Faust
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Lucien Leuwen
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