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Claude Autant-Lara

Claude Autant-Lara
  • Name: Claude Autant-Lara
  • Birthday: 1901-08-05
  • Also known as: Claude Moore,Клод Отан-Лара
  • Place of birth: Luzarches, Val-d'Oise, France
  • Popularity: 3.082
Biography: Claude Autant-Lara 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... Read More

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Title Release date
My Name Is Anna Magnani   as  Self 1980-09-30
Nana   as  Fauchery 1926-06-25
The Man of the Sea   as  Un des copains (uncredited) 1920-12-03