Jorge Semprún

Known for WritingBorn 1923-12-10Died 2011-06-07Madrid, 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 Franco's death and the change to a democratic government, he was Spain's Minister of Culture from 1988 to 1991. He was screenwriter for two successive films by Greek director Costa-Gavras. In 1996 he became the first non-French author to be elected a member of the Académie Goncourt, which awards an annual literary prize.Read more

Movies & web series

Apostrophes

A Grin Without a Cat

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Inside a Nazi Mind: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell

Valérian, histoire d'une création

The Confession

Che: muerte de la utopia?

Special Section

Los desastres de la guerra

The Assassination

You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London

The Many Lives of Jorge Semprún

The War Is Over

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L'Affaire Dreyfus

The Sidewalks of Saturn

Les Deux mémoires

Stavisky...

A Woman at Her Window

Objective: 500 Million

Netchayev is Back

Roads to the South

Vivement dimanche

Le Temps du silence

Ah, c'était ça la vie!

Literatur im Foyer

Lo + plus

Rush - Voyage à Moscou

Meticulous and Desperate