Jean Aurenche
September 10, 1903 · 122 years old
Jean Aurenche (1903–1992) was a French screenwriter. During his career, he wrote 80 films for directors such as René Clément, Bertrand Tavernier, Marcel Carné, Jean Delannoy and Claude Autant-Lara. He is often associated with the screenwriter Pierre Bost, with whom he had a fertile partnership from…
Known For
10 titles
L'Age d'Or
A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
Clean Slate
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life - and resorts to drastic means to do so.
The Crossing of Paris
Two men carry at night four suitcases of contraband meat across German-occupied Paris during WWII. Their opposite personalities and strange encounters provoke different adventures - until they are arrested by the police.
This Special Friendship
A tale of the tender relationship between a 12-year-old boy and the upperclassman who is the object of his desire in the rigid atmosphere of their Jesuit-run school.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The timeless tale of the seductive gypsy Esmeralda and the tortured hunchback Quasimodo.
The Judge and the Assassin
An unstable former French Sergeant commits many atrocities. A judge considers how this case could benefit or damage his career.
Let Joy Reign Supreme
A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities' depravity contribute to social oppression, and the uprisings flare up one after another.
Gervaise
A poor laundrywoman tries to cope with a depressing burden of society.
The Walls of Malapaga
A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.
L'étoile du Nord
In 1934, a mysterious Frenchman returns to Europe from Egypt.