Claude Autant-Lara
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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Fotos
Filmes (54)
The Bardot mystery
2012
My Name Is Anna Magnani
1980 · Self
Gloria
1977 · Director, Writer
Lucien Leuwen
1973 · Director
Potatoes
1969 · Director, Writer
Franciscan of Bourges
1968 · Director
The Oldest Profession
1967 · Director
A Woman in White Revolts
1966 · Producer, Director
A Woman in White
1965 · Director
Black Humor
1965 · Director
Josefa's Loot
1963 · Director
Enough Rope
1963 · Director
The Count of Monte Cristo
1961 · Director
Thou Shalt Not Kill
1961 · Director
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
1961 · Director
Lovers Woods
1960 · Director
The Regattas of San Francisco
1960 · Director
The Green Mare
1959 · Director
The Gambler
1958 · Director
Love Is My Profession
1958 · Director
La Traversée de Paris
1956 · Director
Marguerite of the Night
1955 · Director
Le Rouge et le Noir
1954 · Director, Writer
The Game of Love
1954 · Director, Dialogue, Adaptation
Good Lord Without Confession
1953 · Director, Screenplay
The Seven Deadly Sins
1952 · Director
The Red Inn
1951 · Director, Screenplay
Keep an Eye on Amelia
1949 · Director
Devil in the Flesh
1947 · Director, Costume Design, Writer
Sylvia and the Ghost
1946 · Director
Douce
1943 · Director, Costume Design
Love Letters
1942 · Director
The Marriage of Chiffon
1942 · Costume Design, Director
The Mysterious Mr. Davis
1939 · Producer, Director
Fric-Frac
1939 · Director
The Stream
1938 · Assistant Director, Director
Courier of Lyons
1937 · Director
Ciboulette
1933 · Director
Plumber in Love
1932 · Director
The Incomplete Athlete
1932 · Director
Buster se marie
1931 · Director
Boul se met au vert
1929 · Director
Little Devil May Care
1928 · Assistant Director
To Build a Fire
1928 · Director
Backbiters
1927
Nana
1926 · Fauchery, Production Design
The Imaginary Voyage
1926 · Assistant Director
Vittel
1926 · Director
The Crazy Ray
1925 · Assistant Director
The Inhuman Woman
1924 · Art Direction, Costume Design
News Item
1923 · Writer, Editor, Director
Don Juan et Faust
1922 · Art Direction
The Man of the Sea
1920 · Un des copains (uncredited), Art Direction, Production Design
Le Carnaval des vérités
1920 · Art Direction
