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.
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, and the younger Paul.
Duras' father fell ill and he returned to France, where he died in 1921, when Duras was seven years old. Between 1922 and 1924, the family lived in France while her mother was on administrative leave. They then moved back to French Indochina when she was posted to Phnom Penh followed by Vĩnh Long and Sa Đéc. The family struggled financially, and her mother made a bad investment in an isolated property and area of rice farmland in Prey Nob, a story which was fictionalized in Un barrage contre le Pacifique (The Sea Wall).
In 1931, when she was 17, Duras and her family moved to France where she successfully passed the first part of the baccalaureate with the choice of Vietnamese as a foreign language, as she spoke it fluently. Duras returned to Saigon in late 1932 where her mother found a teaching post. There, Marguerite continued her education at the Lycée Chasseloup-Laubat and completed the second part of the baccalaureate, specializing in philosophy.
In autumn 1933, Duras moved to Paris, graduating with a degree in public law in 1936. At the same time, she took classes in mathematics. She continued her education, earning a diplôme d'études supérieures (DES) in public law and, later, in political economy. After finishing her studies in 1937, she found employment with the French government at the Ministry of the Colonies. In 1939, she married the writer Robert Antelme, whom she had met during her studies.
During World War II, from 1942 to 1944, Duras worked for the Vichy government in an office that allocated paper quotas to publishers and in the process operated a de facto book-censorship system. She then became an active member of the PCF (the French Communist Party) and a member of the French Resistance as a part of a small group that also included François Mitterrand, who later became President of France and remained a lifelong friend of hers. Duras' husband, Antelme, was deported to Buchenwald in 1944 for his involvement in the Resistance, and barely survived the experience (weighing on his release, according to Duras, just 38 kg, or 84 pounds). She nursed him back to health, but they divorced once he recovered.
In 1943, when publishing her first novel, she began to use the surname Duras, after the town that her father came from, Duras, Lot-et-Garonne.
In 1950, her mother returned to France from Indochina, wealthy from property investments and from the boarding school she had run. ...
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Filmography (Movies)
Little Girl Blue
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/11/2023
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:07/01/2022
Mitterrand, président culturel
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:12/05/2021
Marguerite Duras, l'écriture et la vie
Character:Self
Release Date:19/02/2021
Pornotropic
Character:Self - Writer (archive footage)
Release Date:30/09/2020
Delphine and Carole
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:14/01/2020
L'affaire Matzneff
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:05/01/2020
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
Character:Self - Writer (archive footage)
Release Date:02/04/2018
Les vendredis d'Apostrophes
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:06/11/2015
Duras and Cinema
Character:self (archive footage)
Release Date:03/07/2014
Hiroshima: The Time of Return
Character:(voice)
Release Date:28/02/2005
Marguerite as She Was
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:04/04/2003
Écrire
Character:Self
Release Date:04/08/1994
Marguerite Duras
Character:Self
Release Date:06/02/1994
Marguerite Duras - Écrire
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1993
The Death of the Young English Aviator
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1993
Duras/Godard
Character:Self
Release Date:02/12/1987
Marguerite Duras: Worn Out with Desire . . . to Write
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1985
La Dame des Yvelines
Character:Self
Release Date:01/07/1984
The Colour of Words
Character:Self
Release Date:12/06/1984
Savannah Bay c’est toi
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1984
Work and Words
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1984
One Minute for One Image
Character:Self - Narrator
Release Date:31/01/1983
L’homme atlantique
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:25/11/1981
Agatha and the Limitless Readings
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:07/10/1981
Duras Shoots
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1981
Mulher a Mulher: Interview with Marguerite Duras by Yann Lemée
Character:Self
Release Date:15/06/1980
Le Navire Night
Character:(voice)
Release Date:21/03/1979
Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver)
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/01/1979
Césarée
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
Release Date:27/08/1978
Les Mains négatives
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/01/1978
Baxter, Vera Baxter
Character:Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Release Date:08/06/1977
The Lorry
Character:elle
Release Date:27/05/1977
Cygne I
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:02/07/1976
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
Character:
Release Date:02/06/1976
The Places of Marguerite Duras
Character:Self
Release Date:03/05/1976
Gaumont-Palace
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:25/03/1976
India Song
Character:Voix Intemporelle (voice)
Release Date:04/06/1975
Woman of the Ganges
Character:Voice
Release Date:03/04/1974
Nathalie Granger
Character:(voice)
Release Date:27/09/1973
Marguerite Duras and the '68ers
Character:Self
Release Date:10/03/1968
Marguerite Duras and the Prison Governess
Character:Self
Release Date:12/11/1967
Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson
Character:Self
Release Date:11/05/1966
Marguerite Duras in the Lions' Den
Character:Self
Release Date:25/02/1966
Pop Age
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1966
Les enfants et Noël
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
Release Date:25/11/1965
Marguerite Duras and Stripper Lolo Pigalle
Character:Self
Release Date:28/10/1965
Marguerite Duras interviews Jeanne Moreau
Character:Self
Release Date:28/07/1965
Dim Dam Dom: Marguerite Duras and Little François
Character:Self
Release Date:30/04/1965
Television Appearances
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