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José Giovanni

José Giovanni
  • Name: José Giovanni
  • Birthday: 1923-06-22
  • Also known as: Jose Giovanni,Joseph Damiani
  • Place of birth: Paris, France
  • Popularity: 0.086
Biography: José Giovanni (22 June 1923, Paris, France – 24 April 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland) was the pseudonym of Joseph Damiani, a French writer and film-maker of Corsican origin who became a naturalized Swiss citizen in 1986. A former collaborationist and criminal who at one time was sentenced to death, Giovanni often drew his inspiration from personal experience or from real gangsters, such as Abel Danos in his 1960 film Classe tous risques, overlooking that they had been members of the French Gestapo. In his films as well as his novels, while praising masculine friendships and advocating the confrontation of the individual against the world, he often championed the underworld but was always... Read More

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Title Release date
Lino Ventura, la part intime   as  Self (archive footage) 2018-02-04
Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic   as  Self 2003-04-16
Symphony for a Massacre   as  Moreau 1963-08-02