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Suzanne Schiffman

Writer, Actor, Director, Additional Credits
Born September 27, 1929Died June 6, 2001 (71 years)
Suzanne Schiffman (née Klochendler, 27 September 1929 – 6 June 2001) was a screenwriter and director for numerous motion pictures. She often worked with François Truffaut. The 'script girl' Joelle, played by Nathalie Baye in Truffaut's Day for Night was based on Schiffman. It accurately portrayed the close collaboration she had with Truffaut and other directors.

Her Jewish mother was detained by the Gestapo during the war, but Klochendler and her sibling were hidden by an order of nuns.[1] Schiffman studied art history at the Sorbonne after the war.

During her career she worked closely with Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette in addition to Truffaut, latterly on the scripts of his films. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film Day for Night and won a César Award for writing The Last Metro with Truffaut.

Suzanne Schiffman died of cancer in 2001.

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Known For

  • Vivre sa vie
  • Jules and Jim
  • Day for Night
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • The Last Metro
  • Band of Outsiders
  • Small Change
  • A Woman Is a Woman
  • The Story of Adele H
  • The Woman Next Door
  • The Wild Child
  • The Chinese
  • The Little Soldier
  • Stolen Kisses
  • Confidentially Yours
  • The Man Who Loved Women
  • Bed & Board
  • Two English Girls
  • Love on the Run
  • Lola
  • The Soft Skin
  • The Green Room
  • Out 1
  • A Married Woman

Filmography

2001
1989
1987
1985
Wuthering Heights · as Screenplay
1984
1984
1983
The Man Who Loved Women · as Original Film Writer
1983
Confidentially Yours · as Screenplay
1981
The Woman Next Door · as Screenplay
1980
1980
The Last Metro · as Screenplay
1979
Love on the Run · as Screenplay
1977
The Man Who Loved Women · as Screenplay
1976
Small Change · as Screenplay
1975
The Story of Adele H · as Screenplay
1973
1972
1971
1971

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