Jean Anouilh

Jean Anouilh

Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. His plays are less experimental than those of his contemporaries, having clearly organized plot and eloquent dialogue. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise. Anouilh was born in Cérisole, a small village on the outskirts of Bordeaux, and had Basque ancestry. His father, François Anouilh, was a tailor, and Anouilh maintained that he inherited from him a pride in conscientious craftmanship. He may owe his artistic bent to his mother, Marie-Magdeleine, a violinist who supplemented the family's meager income by playing summer seasons in the casino orchestra in the nearby seaside resort of Arcachon. Marie-Magdeleine worked the night shifts in the music-hall orchestras and sometimes accompanied stage presentations, affording Anouilh ample opportunity to absorb the dramatic performances from backstage. He often attended rehearsals and solicited the resident authors to let him read scripts until bedtime. He first tried his hand at playwriting here, at the age of 12, though his earliest works do not survive. In 1918 the family moved to Paris where the young Anouilh received his secondary education at the Lycée Chaptal. Jean-Louis Barrault, later a major French director, was a pupil there at the same time and recalls Anouilh as an intense, rather dandified figure who hardly noticed a boy some two years younger than himself. He earned acceptance into the law school at the Sorbonne but, unable to support himself financially, he left after just 18 months to seek work as a copywriter at the advertising agency Publicité Damour. He liked the work, and spoke more than once with wry approval of the lessons in the classical virtues of brevity and precision of language he learned while drafting advertising copy. ... Source: Article "Jean Anouilh" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Popularidad : 0.613
  • Conocido por : Writing
  • Cumpleaños : 1910-06-23
  • Lugar de nacimiento : Bordeaux, Gironde, France
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Jean Anouilh Películas

  • 1933
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    Le Colisée

    Le Colisée

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  • 1948
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    Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina

    6 1948 HD

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  • 1972
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    A Time for Loving

    A Time for Loving

    4 1972 HD

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  • 1947
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    Monsieur Vincent

    Monsieur Vincent

    6.5 1947 HD

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  • 1964
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    Valčík toreadorů

    Valčík toreadorů

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  • 1939
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    Les Otages

    Les Otages

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  • 1952
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    Le Rideau rouge

    Le Rideau rouge

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  • 1951
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    Carolina querida

    Carolina querida

    5.9 1951 HD

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  • 1966
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    Kruté štěstí

    Kruté štěstí

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  • 1974
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    Antigone

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  • 1968
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    Romeo a Jana

    Romeo a Jana

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  • 1944
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    Le Voyageur sans bagage

    Le Voyageur sans bagage

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  • 1944
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    Le Voyageur sans bagage

    Le Voyageur sans bagage

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  • 1945
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    La Fiancée des ténèbres

    La Fiancée des ténèbres

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  • 1965
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    Piège pour Cendrillon

    Piège pour Cendrillon

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  • 2008
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    On m'a volé mon adolescence

    On m'a volé mon adolescence

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  • 1939
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    Cavalcade d'amour

    Cavalcade d'amour

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  • 1964
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    Juegos de amor a la francesa

    Juegos de amor a la francesa

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  • 1964
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    Becket

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  • 1972
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    Appuntamento a Senlis

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  • 1961
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    La Mort de Belle

    La Mort de Belle

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  • 1957
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    Eurydice

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  • 1937
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    Vous n'avez rien à déclarer?

    Vous n'avez rien à déclarer?

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  • 1973
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    La Nuit des rois

    La Nuit des rois

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  • 1986
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    La répétition ou L'amour puni

    La répétition ou L'amour puni

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  • 1981
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    Il est important d'être aimé

    Il est important d'être aimé

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  • 1957
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    The Lark

    The Lark

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  • 1949
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    Pattes blanches

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  • 1953
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    Le Chevalier de la nuit

    Le Chevalier de la nuit

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  • 1972
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    Orchester

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  • 2012
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    Vous n'avez encore rien vu

    Vous n'avez encore rien vu

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  • 1951
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    Deux sous de violettes

    Deux sous de violettes

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    Deux sous de violettes

    Deux sous de violettes

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  • 1968
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    Repetitionen

    Repetitionen

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  • 1952
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    Monsoon

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  • 1979
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    المتوحشة

    المتوحشة

    6 1979 HD

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  • 1943
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    Marie-Martine

    Marie-Martine

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  • 2004
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    Le voyageur sans bagage

    Le voyageur sans bagage

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  • 2003
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    Antigone

    Antigone

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  • 1962
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    El mayor mujeriego

    El mayor mujeriego

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  • 1937
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    La Citadelle du silence

    La Citadelle du silence

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  • 1961
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    Madame de…

    Madame de…

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  • 1979
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    المتوحشة

    المتوحشة

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