Claude Autant-Lara

Regista, Sceneggiatore, Attore, Produttore

5 agosto 1901 — 5 febbraio 2000 (98 anni)
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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Famoso per

  • La traversata di Parigi
    La traversata di Parigi1956
  • La ragazza del peccato
    La ragazza del peccato1958
  • Arriva Fra' Cristoforo!
    Arriva Fra' Cristoforo!1951
  • Il diavolo in corpo
    Il diavolo in corpo1947
  • Parigi che dorme
    Parigi che dorme1925
  • L'uomo e il diavolo
    L'uomo e il diavolo1954
  • Solo una notte
    Solo una notte1946
  • Il conte di Montecristo
    Il conte di Montecristo1961
  • Fric-Frac, furto con scasso
    Fric-Frac, furto con scasso1939
  • Evasione
    Evasione1943
  • La giumenta verde
    La giumenta verde1959
  • L'auberge rouge
    L'auberge rouge2007
  • Occupati di Amelia
    Occupati di Amelia1949
  • Margherita della notte
    Margherita della notte1955
  • Quella certa età
    Quella certa età1954
  • L'omicida
    L'omicida1963
  • Le mariage de Chiffon
    Le mariage de Chiffon1942
  • Il giocatore
    Il giocatore1958
  • Una signora per bene
    Una signora per bene1953
  • I sette peccati capitali
    I sette peccati capitali1952

Filmografia