Albert Camus

Albert Camus

Born: November 7, 1913
Died: January 4, 1960
in Dréan, Algeria
Albert Camus was a French Algerian philosopher, author, and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44 in 1957, the second-youngest recipient in history. Camus was born in Algeria to French Pieds Noirs parents. His citizenship was French.

Movies for Albert Camus...

Maria Casarès and Albert Camus, you, my life
Title: Maria Casarès and Albert Camus, you, my life
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 25, 2022
Type: Movie
Maria Casarès, a theatre actress and Albert Camus, one of the most important modern french writer, keep a long correspondence (more than 900 letters) about their love and the emotions they feel for each other for 15 years.
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Title: At War for Algeria
Character: Self - Writer (archive footage)
Released: February 22, 2022
Type: TV
North Africa, 1954. The Algerian war of independence begins, a traumatic and extremely violent catastrophe that for eight long years will shake and finally overthrow the foundations of the colonial regime established by France in 1830.
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Cretinália
Title: Cretinália
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 3, 2020
Type: Movie
Short film by Jorge Furtado, for the "Programa Convida", from IMS, dedicated to creation during quarantine.
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The Lives of Albert Camus
Title: The Lives of Albert Camus
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 22, 2020
Type: Movie
Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature. Author of “L'Etranger”, one of the most widely read novels in the world, philosopher of the absurd and of revolt, resistant, journalist, playwright, Albert Camus had an extraordinary destiny. Child of the poor districts of Algiers, tuberculosis patient, orphan of father, son of an illiterate and deaf mother, he tore himself away from his condition thanks to his teacher. French from Algeria, he never ceased to fight for equality with the Arabs and the Kabyle, while fearing the Independence of the FLN. Founded on restored and colorized archives, and first-hand accounts, this documentary attempts to paint the portrait of Camus as he was.
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Camus, l'icône de la révolte
Title: Camus, l'icône de la révolte
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 3, 2020
Type: Movie
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Amour de vivre
Title: Amour de vivre
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 1, 2010
Type: Movie
An account of the brief life of the writer Albert Camus (1913-1960), a Frenchman born in Algeria: his Spanish origin on the isle of Menorca, his childhood in Algiers, his literary career and his constant struggle against the pomposity of French bourgeois intellectuals, his communist commitment, his love for Spain and his opposition to the independence of Algeria, since it would cause the loss of his true home, his definitive estrangement.
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Albert Camus
Title: Albert Camus
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A documentary on Albert Camus.