Claude Autant-Lara

Director, Escritor, Actor, Productor

5 de agosto de 1901 — 5 de febrero de 2000 (98 años)
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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    La travesía de París1956
  • En caso de desgracia
    En caso de desgracia1958
  • El albergue rojo
    El albergue rojo1951
  • El diablo en el cuerpo
    El diablo en el cuerpo1947
  • París que duerme
    París que duerme1925
  • El rojo y el negro
    El rojo y el negro1954
  • Sylvie and the Ghost
    Sylvie and the Ghost1946
  • El conde de Montecristo
    El conde de Montecristo1961
  • Fric-Frac
    Fric-Frac1939
  • Douce
    Douce1943
  • The Green Mare
    The Green Mare1959
  • El Albergue Rojo
    El Albergue Rojo2007
  • Ocúpate de Amélie
    Ocúpate de Amélie1949
  • Margarita de la noche
    Margarita de la noche1955
  • The Immature Grain
    The Immature Grain1954
  • El asesino
    El asesino1963
  • El casamiento de Chiffon
    El casamiento de Chiffon1942
  • El jugador
    El jugador1958
  • Le bon Dieu sans confession
    Le bon Dieu sans confession1953
  • El diablo siempre pierde
    El diablo siempre pierde1952

Filmography