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.

Known For

Apostrophes

Vivement dimanche

Lo + plus

A Grin Without a Cat

The War Is Over

Inside a Nazi Mind: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell

Meticulous and Desperate

You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London

All Movies (9)

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

All TV Shows (5)

• Literatur im Foyer2000 · as himself
• Vivement dimanche1998 · as Self
• Lo + plus1995 · as Self
• Meticulous and Desperate1989 · as himself
• Apostrophes1975 · as Self