Jean Cayrol

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Jean Cayrol (6 June 1911 – 10 February 2005) was a French poet, publisher, and member of the Académie Goncourt born in Bordeaux. He is perhaps best known for writing the narration in Alain Resnais's 1955 documentary film, Night and Fog. He was a major contributor to the subversive, philosophical French publication Tel Quel. In 1941, during the Nazi occupation of France, Cayrol joined the French Resistance, but he was subsequently betrayed, arrested, and sent to the Gusen concentration camp in 1943. He was one of the youngest French inmates at that camp, and consequently was made to do some of…

  • Writing
  • Born 6 June 1911
  • Died 10 February 2005 (age 93)
  • Bordeaux, Gironde, France
  • 7 credits

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Most-watched Jean Cayrol films currently: Night and Fog (1956), Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963), Le Coup de grâce (1966), El misteri dels cines desapareguts (1984), La Frontière (1961).

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