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.

  • Title: Jean Anouilh
  • Popularity: 3.616
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1910-06-23
  • Place of Birth: Bordeaux, Gironde, France
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  • Also Known As: Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh
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Jean Anouilh Movies

  • 1933
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    Le Colisée

    Le Colisée

    7 1933 HD

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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

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1939
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    The Mayor's Dilemma

    The Mayor's Dilemma

    6.1 1939 HD

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  • 1952
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    Crimson Curtain

    Crimson Curtain

    6.2 1952 HD

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  • 1951
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    Dear Caroline

    Dear Caroline

    5.9 1951 HD

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  • 1966
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    Kruté štěstí

    Kruté štěstí

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1974
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    Antigone

    Antigone

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1968
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    Romeo a Jana

    Romeo a Jana

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1944
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    The Traveler Without Luggage

    The Traveler Without Luggage

    7 1944 HD

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  • 1944
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    The Traveler Without Luggage

    The Traveler Without Luggage

    7 1944 HD

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  • 1945
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    The Bride of Darkness

    The Bride of Darkness

    5.4 1945 HD

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  • 1965
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    A Trap for Cinderella

    A Trap for Cinderella

    6.1 1965 HD

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  • 2008
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    On m'a volé mon adolescence

    On m'a volé mon adolescence

    1 2008 HD

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  • 1939
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    Cavalcade of Love

    Cavalcade of Love

    5.2 1939 HD

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  • 1964
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    Circle of Love

    Circle of Love

    5.8 1964 HD

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  • 1964
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    Becket

    Becket

    7.1 1964 HD

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  • 1972
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    Appuntamento a Senlis

    Appuntamento a Senlis

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1961
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    The Passion of Slow Fire

    The Passion of Slow Fire

    6.6 1961 HD

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  • 1957
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    Eurydice

    Eurydice

    1 1957 HD

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  • 1937
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    Confessions of a Newlywed

    Confessions of a Newlywed

    5.4 1937 HD

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  • 1973
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    La Nuit des rois

    La Nuit des rois

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1986
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    La répétition ou L'amour puni

    La répétition ou L'amour puni

    6 1986 HD

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  • 1981
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    Il est important d'être aimé

    Il est important d'être aimé

    1 1981 HD

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  • 1957
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    The Lark

    The Lark

    1 1957 HD

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  • 1949
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    White Paws

    White Paws

    5.1 1949 HD

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  • 1953
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    The Knight of the Night

    The Knight of the Night

    5.6 1953 HD

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  • 2012
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    You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

    You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

    6.6 2012 HD

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  • 1972
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    Orchester

    Orchester

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1951
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    Two Pennies Worth of Violets

    Two Pennies Worth of Violets

    3 1951 HD

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  • 1951
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    Two Pennies Worth of Violets

    Two Pennies Worth of Violets

    3 1951 HD

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  • 1968
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    Repetitionen

    Repetitionen

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1952
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    Monsoon

    Monsoon

    4 1952 HD

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  • 1979
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    The Savage

    The Savage

    6 1979 HD

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  • 1943
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    Marie-Martine

    Marie-Martine

    6.8 1943 HD

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  • 2004
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    Le voyageur sans bagage

    Le voyageur sans bagage

    7 2004 HD

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  • 2003
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    Antigone

    Antigone

    6.5 2003 HD

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  • 1962
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    Waltz of the Toreadors

    Waltz of the Toreadors

    4.8 1962 HD

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  • 1937
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    The Citadel of Silence

    The Citadel of Silence

    1 1937 HD

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  • 1961
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    Madame de…

    Madame de…

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1979
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    The Savage

    The Savage

    6 1979 HD

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  • 1972
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    Midi trente

    Midi trente

    6 1972 HD

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  • 1970
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    Midi trente

    Midi trente

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Midi trente

    Midi trente

    1 1970 HD

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