Jean Genet
Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later took to writing. His major works include the novels The Thief's Journal and Our Lady of the Flowers, and the plays The Balcony, The Maids and The Screens.
| Known For | Writing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.2132 |
| Birthday | 1910-12-19 |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Also Known As |
1970
Mayday
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In the spring of 1970, thousands of protesters descended on New Haven to demonstrate against the trial of Black Panther members for the murder of susp...
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Mayday
2023
Little Girl Blue
6.38/51
In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole's death, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, discovers...
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Little Girl Blue
1970
Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy
8/2
In the aftermath of the arrest of Angela Davis, Jean Genet reads a text denouncing racist US policy, supporting the Black Panthers party and Angela Da...
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Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy
1950
Song of Love
7/111
Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of commu...
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Song of Love
2019
André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
6/3
Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plot twist. Politician. General De Gaulle's shadow. O...
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André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
1950
Disorder
5.8/5
Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946.
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Disorder
1982
Jean Genet: Entretien avec Bertrand Poirot-Delpech
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Jean Genet: Entretien avec Bertrand Poirot-Delpech
1968
Chicago
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UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A striking documentary shot cinema verite style of the 1968 Democratic National...
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Chicago
1970
Shiraz 70
10/1
A short documentary about the 4th Shiraz Arts Festival and its series of performances that took place in September 1970.
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Shiraz 70
2010
Jean Genet, le contre exemplaire
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Rome, Paris, Marrakesh, Saint-Brieuc and New York, familiar decors of hotel rooms and prison cells... inmates, travesties, illegal immigrants relate t...
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