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.

Most Known For

Vivement dimanche

as Self

Apostrophes

as Self

Lo + plus

as Self

Literatur im Foyer

as himself

The War Is Over

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Meticulous and Desperate

as himself

A Grin Without a Cat

as Narrator (voice)

Valérian, histoire d'une création

as Self (archive footage)

Les Deux mémoires

as Self

Inside a Nazi Mind: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell

as Self - Writer (archive footage)

The Many Lives of Jorge Semprún

as Self (archive footage)

Che: muerte de la utopia?

Rush - Voyage à Moscou

as Self

You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London

as Self - Interviewee