Jorge Semprún

Jorge Semprún Maura was a Spanish writer and politician. From 1953 to 1962, during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer for the exiled Communist Party of Spain, but was expelled from the party in 1964. After Franco's death and the change to a democratic government, he was Spain's Minister of Culture from 1988 to 1991. He was screenwriter for two successive films by Greek director Costa-Gavras. In 1996 he became the first non-French author to be elected a member of the Académie Goncourt, which awards an annual literary prize.

Filmography

All 14Movies 9TV 5

The Many Lives of Jorge Semprún

Self (archive footage)

Inside a Nazi Mind: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell

Self - Writer (archive footage)

Valérian, histoire d'une création

Self (archive footage)

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Literatur im Foyer

himself

Che: muerte de la utopia?

1999

Vivement dimanche

Self

Lo + plus

Self

Rush - Voyage à Moscou

Self

Meticulous and Desperate

himself

A Grin Without a Cat

Narrator (voice)

Apostrophes

Self

Les Deux mémoires

Self

You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London

Self - Interviewee

The War Is Over

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)