Claude Autant-Lara
Biography
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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Movies (46)
My Name Is Anna Magnani
as Self
1980
Gloria
Director (Directing)
1977
Lucien Leuwen
Director (Directing)
1973
Potatoes
Writer (Writing)
1969
Franciscan of Bourges
Director (Directing)
1968
The Oldest Profession
Director (Directing)
1967
A Woman in White Revolts
Producer (Production)
1966
A Woman in White
Director (Directing)
1965
Black Humor
Director (Directing)
1965
Josefa's Loot
Director (Directing)
1963
Enough Rope
Director (Directing)
1963
The Count of Monte Cristo
Director (Directing)
1961
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Director (Directing)
1961
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Director (Directing)
1961
Lovers Woods
Director (Directing)
1960
The Regattas of San Francisco
Director (Directing)
1960
The Green Mare
Director (Directing)
1959
The Gambler
Director (Directing)
1958
Love Is My Profession
Director (Directing)
1958
La Traversée de Paris
Director (Directing)
1956
Marguerite of the Night
Director (Directing)
1955
Le Rouge et le Noir
Director (Directing)
1954
The Game of Love
Director (Directing)
1954
Good Lord Without Confession
Director (Directing)
1953
The Seven Deadly Sins
Director (Directing)
1952
The Red Inn
Director (Directing)
1951
Keep an Eye on Amelia
Director (Directing)
1949
Devil in the Flesh
Director (Directing)
1947
Sylvia and the Ghost
Director (Directing)
1946
Douce
Director (Directing)
1943
Love Letters
Director (Directing)
1942
The Marriage of Chiffon
Costume Design (Costume & Make-Up)
1942
The Mysterious Mr. Davis
Producer (Production)
1939
Fric-Frac
Director (Directing)
1939
The Stream
Assistant Director (Directing)
1938
Courier of Lyons
Director (Directing)
1937
Ciboulette
Director (Directing)
1933
Plumber in love
Director (Directing)
1932
The incomplete athlete
Director (Directing)
1932
Buster se marie
Director (Directing)
1931
Boul se met au vert
Director (Directing)
1929
Little Devil May Care
Assistant Director (Directing)
1928
To Build a Fire
Director (Directing)
1928
Backbiters
1927
Nana
as Fauchery
1926
The Imaginary Voyage
Assistant Director (Directing)
1926
