Jorge Semprún

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1923-12-10

Deathday 2011-06-07 (87 years old)

Place of Birth Madrid, Spain

Also Known As Jorge Semprún Maura, Federico Sánchez, Jorge Semprun

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

Writer

2011
Le Temps du silence

as Scenario Writer

2011
1997
K

as Writer

1995
1991
1978
Roads to the South

as Screenplay

1976
A Woman at Her Window

as Screenplay

1976
1975
Special Section

as Writer

1974
Stavisky...

as Writer

1974
1972
The Assassination

as Adaptation

1972
The Assassination

as Dialogue

1970
The Confession

as Writer

1969
Z

as Writer

1966
The War Is Over

as Screenplay

1966

Actor

2023
The Many Lives of Jorge Semprún

as Self (archive footage)

2023
2017
Valérian, histoire d'une création

as Self (archive footage)

2000
1998
1995
Lo + plus

as Self

1990
1977
A Grin Without a Cat

as Narrator (voice)

1975
Apostrophes

as Self

1974
1966
The War Is Over

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Director

1974
Les Deux mémoires

as Director