Jorge Semprún
Writing
Born December 10, 1923 in Madrid, Spain
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
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)
Le Temps du silence
Ah, c'était ça la vie!
Che: muerte de la utopia?
Vivement dimanche
Self
K
L'Affaire Dreyfus
Lo + plus
Self
Netchayev is Back
Rush - Voyage à Moscou
Self
Meticulous and Desperate
himself
The Sidewalks of Saturn
Los desastres de la guerra
Roads to the South
A Grin Without a Cat
Narrator (voice)
A Woman at Her Window
Special Section
Apostrophes
Self
Stavisky...
Les Deux mémoires
Self
The Assassination
You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London
Self - Interviewee
The Confession
Z
Objective: 500 Million
The War Is Over
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)