Alexandre Astruc
French film director (1923-2016) · France · On the map · Directors · Died at 92
Alexandre Astruc was a French film director, film critic, screenwriter, and novelist. He is best known for his landmark 1948 essay "Naissance d'une nouvelle avant-garde: la caméra-stylo", which argued that cinema should become a means of personal expression as flexible and subtle as written language.
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Savage SoulsFilm, Writer1996Commandeur des Arts et des LettresAward1994René Clair AwardAward1990Louis Barthou PrizeAward1981
The Fall of the House of UsherFilm, Director1980Paul Flat PrizeAward
Arsène Lupin joue et perdSeries, 1980Director, WriterThe Adventures of Arsène LupinFilm, 1980Director1976Roger Nimier PrixAward1975
ApostrophesSeries
Les Grands DétectivesSeries, 1975Director
Les Rendez-vous du dimancheSeries, 19751974
CharlotteFilm, L'éditeur Guy1970
Introduction à la Méthode de F. W. MurnauFilm, Director1966
Long MarchFilm, Director, Writer1965
Évariste GaloisFilm, Director, Writer1962
Sentimental EducationFilm, Director1961
Shadows of AdulteryFilm, Director1957
A Girl in a PocketFilm, First employee of lost and found items1956
CinépanoramaSeries1955
Bad LiaisonsFilm, Director, Writer1953
Les Crimes de l'amourFilm, Director1952Louis Delluc PrizeAward
The Respectful ProstituteFilm, 1952Writer1949
Rendezvous in JulyFilm, (uncredited)1923Born13 July 1923People around Alexandre
Christian Marquand Alexandre directed One Life (1958)
Maurice Ronet Alexandre directed La Longue marche (1966)
Daniel Gélin Alexandre directed Prey for the Shadows (1961)
Ivan Desny Alexandre directed One Life (1958)
Louis Arbessier Also in Charlotte or The Murdered Young Girl (1976)
Boris Vian Alexandre directed Ulysse ou les Mauvaises Rencontres (1949)
Anouk Aimée Alexandre directed The Crimson Curtain (1952)
Jean-Claude Pascal Alexandre directed The Crimson Curtain (1952)
France Roche Alexandre directed Ulysse ou les Mauvaises Rencontres (1949)
Jacques Hilling Also in Rendezvous in July and Amour de poche
Gérard Darrieu Alexandre directed One Life (1958)
Roger Vadim Directed Charlotte or The Murdered Young Girl (1976)
Maria Schell Alexandre directed One Life (1958)
Jean-Claude Brialy Alexandre directed Sentimental Education (1962)
Antonella Lualdi Alexandre directed One Life (1958)
Claude Dauphin Alexandre directed Bad Liaisons (1955)
Dawn Addams Alexandre directed Sentimental Education (1962)
Pascale Petit Alexandre directed One Life (1958)
Mathieu Carrière Alexandre directed Une fille d'Ève (1989)
Michèle Girardon Alexandre directed Prey for the Shadows (1961)
Pierre Kast Directed Amour de poche (1957)
Andrée Tainsy Alexandre directed One Life (1958)
Jean Sobieski Alexandre directed Evariste Galois (1967)- Annie Noël Also in Rendezvous in July (1949)
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The concept became a foundational influence on the theorists and filmmakers of the French New Wave. Alongside his extensive critical and literary work, Astruc directed a series of highly literate feature films between 1955 and 1968 before working extensively in television.
