Marguerite Duras

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1914-04-04 (82 years old)

Deathday

1996-03-03

Place of Birth

Gia Định, Vietnam

Marguerite Duras

Biography

Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards. Duras was born Marguerite Donnadieu on 4 April 1914, in Gia Định, Cochinchina, French Indochina (now Vietnam). Her parents, Marie (née Legrand, 1877–1956) and Henri Donnadieu (1872–1921), were teachers from France who likely had met at Gia Định High School. They both had previous marriages. Marguerite had two brothers: Pierre, the older, a...

Acting

1973

1977

The Lorry

as elle

1976

Cygne I

as Narrator (voice)

1978

Les Mains négatives

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1994

2023

Little Girl Blue

as Self (archive footage)

1979

Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver)

as Narrator (voice)

2014

Duras and Cinema

as self (archive footage)

1981

1983

One Minute for One Image

as Self - Narrator

1994

Écrire

as Self

1965

Les enfants et Noël

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2003

Marguerite as She Was

as Self (archive footage)

1975

India Song

as Voix Intemporelle (voice)

1981

L’homme atlantique

as Narrator (voice)

1979

Le Navire Night

as (voice)

1981

2015

Les vendredis d'Apostrophes

as Self (archive footage)

2020

L'affaire Matzneff

as Self (archive footage)

1987

1977

Baxter, Vera Baxter

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

2018

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit

as Self - Writer (archive footage)

2020

Pornotropic

as Self - Writer (archive footage)

1966

Pop Age

as Self

2020

Delphine and Carole

as Self (archive footage)

2021

Mitterrand, président culturel

as Self (archive footage)

1984

1976

Gaumont-Palace

as Narrator (voice)

1978

Césarée

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Production

2008

Half Past Ten

as Author

1959

Hiroshima Mon Amour

as Screenplay

1973

Nathalie Granger

as Director

1973

1992

The Lover

as Novel

1966

Mademoiselle

as Writer

1977

The Lorry

as Director

1977

1969

1974

1975

India Song

as Director

1985

The Children

as Director

2022

Azuro

as Writer

1961

1978

1978

Césarée

as Director

1979

Le Navire Night

as Director

1983

Roman Dialogue

as Director

1969

La Musica

as Theatre Play

2009

The Sea Wall

as Novel

1975

India Song

as Writer

1967

La Musica

as Writer

1967

La Musica

as Director

1969

1981

1994

The Malady of Death

as Adaptation

1971

Jaune, Le Soleil

as Director

1971

1964

1978

Music

as Theatre Play

1965

The Moment of Peace

as Screenplay

1974

1977

The Lorry

as Writer

1977

1978

Césarée

as Writer

1983

1985

The Children

as Writer

1957

1961

The Square

as Writer

1982

En rachâchant

as Short Story

2023

Writing

as Book

1976

Cygne I

as Editor

2017

1979

Le Navire Night

as Screenplay

2021

Suzanna Andler

as Theatre Play

1977

1977

1966

10:30 P.M. Summer

as Screenplay

1966

1966

La Voleuse

as Writer

1989

Savannah Bay

as Original Story

2004

Agatha

as Theatre Play

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