Jean Dutourd

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Jan 14, 1920 (105 years old)
Death date
Jan 17, 2011

Jean Dutourd

Known For

Trio
1h 22m
Movie 1987

Trio

Trio is a cinematic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large, fixed and silent shot of 3 minutes and 20 seconds, three people free to do what they want.

Lire
11h 30m
Movie 1986

Lire

Lire is a cinematographic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large fixed and sound sequence shot of 3 minutes 20 seconds, a writer reading the beginning of his last published book.

Portrait de groupe
17h 0m
Movie 1986

Portrait de groupe

Portrait de groupe is a film series of filmed portraits that shows all kinds of groups gathered under family pretexts, friendly or professional, in a single fixed, wide shot (style: family photo) and silent of 3 minutes and 20 seconds.

Biography

Jean Gwenaël Dutourd (14 January 1920 – 17 January 2011) was a French novelist. Dutourd was born in Paris. His mother died when he was seven years old. At the age of twenty, he was taken prisoner fifteen days after Germany's invasion of France in World War II. He escaped six weeks later and returned to Paris where he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He entered the Resistance and was again arrested in early 1944. He escaped and took part in the Liberation of Paris. He was a candidate for the Democratic Union of Labour (UDT) in the legislative elections of 1967. His first work, Le Complexe de César, appeared in 1946 and received the Prix Stendhal. He was elected to the Académie française on 30 November 1978. In 1997 he was elected as a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Department of Language and Literature. Dutourd died in Paris on 17 January 2011, at the age of 91. Source: Article "Jean Dutourd" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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