Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

926 • SEMPRUN, JORGE
1996 La Femme de la Forêt (2 90')
Strangers (episode “Crash”; France / Canada)
Flics de Choc (episode “La Dernière Vague”)
Emma—Première Mission / Emma Sorel
Hemingway (documentary)
Norman Mailer (documentary)
1997 Week-End!
Si je t’oublie Sarajevo
1998 Le Bahut (4 52'; co-director with Michaëla
Watteaux)
Maternité (2 52'; co-director with Jean-
Denis Robert)
Commandant Nerval (episodes “Une Femme
dangereuse,” “Opération Arc de Triomphe”)
1999 Fleurs de Sel (2 90'; France / Belgium)
2000 Vertiges (episode “Lire la Mort”)
Scénarios sur la Drogue (segment “Quand
j’étais petit”)
2001 Ma Vie en l’Air
Phobies
Mausolée pour une Garce (also producer)
2002 Génération Start Up
2003 Aurélien (2 90'; also narrator)
A nous la Vie (5 26')
2004 Péril imminent: Mortel Chahut
2005 Brasier (also co-screenwriter)
Lira, lira pas (documentary; also co-screenwriter)
On ne prête qu’aux Riches (France / Switzerland)
L’Ordre du Temple solaire (also narrator)
2006 La Chasse à l’Homme (Mesrine) (France / Switzerland)
2007 Mariage, Mariage, Mariage
Un Amour de Fantôme
Vérités assassines
Divine Amélie
2008 Le Gendre idéal
SEMPRUN, JORGE (Jorge Maura Semprun / December
10, 1923, Madrid, Spain–)
The grandson of former Spanish Prime Minister Antonio
Maura (1853–1925), he left Spain in the wake
of civil war in 1936. His family took refuge in France,
where he notably studied at the Sorbonne. In the
early 1940s, he joined the communist resistance group
Francs-Tireurs et Partisans. Arrested by the Gestapo
in 1943, he was deported to the Buchenwald concentration
camp. After the end of World War II, he resumed
his political activities but progressively became
critical of communism. A novelist since 1963 (Le Grand
Voyage, Gallimard), he made his fi lm debut writing the
screenplay and dialogue of Alain Resnais’s La Guerre est
fi nie / Krigel är slut / USA: The War Is Over (also narrator,
France / Sweden, 1966). From 1988 to 1991, he was
culture minister of Spain. Other credits: 1966 Objectif:
500 Millions / Obiettivo 500 milioni / USA: Objective 500
Million (as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist,
Pierre Schoendoerffer, France / Italy); 1968 Je t’aime,
je t’aime (Alain Resnais); 1969 Z (as co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, dialogist, Costa-Gavras, France / Algeria);
1970 L’Aveu / La confessione / UK and USA: The Confession
(as screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, Costa-Gavras,
France / Italy); 1972 L’Attentat / L’attentato / Das Attentat
/ UK: Plot / USA: The Assassination / The French
Conspiracy (as co-screenwriter, Costa-Gavras, France /
Italy); 1974 Stavisky . . . / Stavisky, il grande truffatore (as
screenwriter, dialogist, Alain Resnais, France / Italy);
1975 Section spéciale / L’affare della sezione speciale /
Sondertribunal—Jeder kämpft für sich allein / UK and
USA: Special Section (as co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
dialogist, Costa-Gavras, France / Italy / West Germany);
1976 Une Femme à sa Fenêtre / Una donna alla
fi nestra / Die Frau am Fenster (Pierre Granier-Deferre,
France / Italy / West Germany); 1977 Le Fond de l’Air
est rouge / USA: Grin Without a Cat (documentary, as
narrator, Chris Marker); 1978 Les Routes du Sud / Las
rutas del sur / USA: Roads to the South (as co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist, Joseph Losey, France / Spain); 1983
Los desastres della guerra (6 60' TV series, as coscreenwriter,
Mario Camus, Spain); 1986 Les Trottoirs
de Saturne / Los veredas de Saturno (as co-screenwriter,
Hugo Santiago, France / Argentina); 1988 Médecins des
Hommes (episode “El Salvador, le Pays des Quatorze
Volcans,” Forestano Vancini); 1991 Netchaïev est de
Retour (as author of original novel only, Jacques Deray,
France / Italy); 1995 L’Affaire Dreyfus / Die Affäre Dreyfus
/ Die Dreyfus-Affäre (as co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist, Yves Boisset, France / Germany); 1997 K
(as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, Alexandre Arcady);
1999 Che: Muerte de la utopia? (documentary, actor as
himself, Fernando Birri, Argentina).
Filmography
1974 Les Deux Mémoires (documentary; also screenwriter)
SENTIER, JEAN-PIERRE (April 7, 1940, Beaugency,
Loiret, France–January 5, 1995, Boulogne-
Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France)