Jorge Semprún

Biography

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.

Filmografi

Les Deux mémoires1974 · SelfThe War Is Over1966 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)A Grin Without a Cat1977 · Narrator (voice)Rush - Voyage à Moscou1990 · SelfThe Many Lives of Jorge Semprún2023 · Self (archive footage)Inside a Nazi Mind: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell2023 · Self - Writer (archive footage)You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London1971 · Self - IntervieweeValérian, histoire d'une création2017 · Self (archive footage)Che: muerte de la utopia?1999 ·