Claude Autant-Lara
Directing
Born 1901-08-05
Died 2000-02-05
Luzarches, Val-d'Oise, France
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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.
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Filmography
Directing
42 credits
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Red Inn
A Woman in White Revolts
Fric-Frac
La Traversée de Paris
The Oldest Profession
Douce
The Stream
Le Rouge et le Noir
The Seven Deadly Sins
The Gambler
Ciboulette
Love Is My Profession
Devil in the Flesh
Franciscan of Bourges
Plumber in love
Marguerite of the Night
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Enough Rope
The Green Mare
Sylvia and the Ghost
To Build a Fire
Love Letters
Courier of Lyons
Buster se marie
The Regattas of San Francisco
The Game of Love
Potatoes
The Marriage of Chiffon
A Woman in White
Good Lord Without Confession
Black Humor
Lovers Woods
Lucien Leuwen
Gloria
Keep an Eye on Amelia
Josefa's Loot
The Mysterious Mr. Davis
Vittel
The Incomplete Athlete
Boul se met au vert
Other credits
15 credits
Le Carnaval des vérités
Nana
The Inhuman Woman
Douce
The Stream
Devil in the Flesh
The Crazy Ray
Little Devil May Care
News Item
The Man of the Sea
Don Juan et Faust
The Bardot mystery
The Imaginary Voyage
Backbiters
The Marriage of Chiffon
Acting
8 credits
Ciné regards
Spécial cinéma
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Cinépanorama
Nana
The Man of the Sea
The Game of Love
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Writing
7 credits
The Red Inn
Le Rouge et le Noir
News Item
Lucien Leuwen
Potatoes
Good Lord Without Confession
Gloria
Producing
2 credits
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