Anne Wiazemsky
Anne Wiazemsky (born May 14, 1947 in Berlin ; † October 5, 2017 in Paris ) was a French actress and writer .
Life
Wiazemsky, who came from a Russian family in exile, made her film debut in 1966 as Marie in Robert Bresson's Franco-Swedish drama For example Balthasar (Au hasard Balthazar) . From 1967 to 1979 Wiazemsky was married to Jean-Luc Godard and starred in several of his films: 1967 in the film drama The Chinese (La Chinoise) , whose script is loosely based on Dostoyevsky's novel The Demons , alongside Jean-Pierre Léaud and in the experimental film Weekend , 1968 in One plus One . For Pier Paolo Pasolini she stood in the literary adaptation Teorema - Geometry of Love in front of the camera in 1969 and in 1970, again at Léaud's side, in the film drama The Pigsty .
In addition to her work as an actress, Wiazemsky also made a name for herself as a director and above all as a writer. The granddaughter of the French Nobel Prize winner for literature, François Mauriac , received several prizes for her literary work. In 2007 she published the autobiographical novel Jeune fille , which tells of the collaboration with the French director Robert Bresson . In the - also autobiographical - novels Une année studieuse and Un an après , Anne Wiazemsky describes her life together with Jean-Luc Godard, from her first meeting while filming Au Hasard Balthazar to May 1969, her work as an actress in his films, the Parisian May '68 , her encounters with "Dany le Rouge", Daniel Cohn-Bendit , with the Rolling Stones while filming One plus One , and other encounters. The volume Photographies is dedicated to the same period .
Jean-Paul Civeyrac's drama All the Beautiful Promises is based on Wiazemsky's novel Hymnes à l'Amour .
Wiazemsky died on October 5, 2017 at the age of 70 from complications from cancer .
Awards
- 1993: Prix Goncourt des lycéens for the novel Canines
- 1998: Grand Prix du Roman ( Académie française ) for the novel Une poignée de gens
- 2012: Prix Saint-Simon for Une année studieuse
Filmography (selection)
actress
- 1966: For example Balthasar (Au hasard Balthazar)
- 1967: The Chinese (La Chinoise)
- 1967: Weekend (Week-end)
- 1968: Teorema - Geometry of Love (Teorema)
- 1968: One Plus One (One plus one)
- 1969: Il seme dell'uomo
- 1969: The Pigsty (Porcile)
- 1971: The Investigation ( L'inchiesta , TV movie)
- 1972: Everything in Butter (Tout va bien)
- 1973: Le Train - Just a Touch of Luck (Le Train)
- 1975: The extradition
- 1982: L'enfant secret
- 1985: She was in the spotlight for so long (Elle a passé tant d'heures sous les sunlights)
- 1985: Rendez-Vous
- 1988: The will of a murdered Jewish poet (Le testament d'un poète juif assassiné)
Script / literary source
- 1994: US Go Home
- 2002: All the beautiful promises (Toutes ces belles promesses)
Works (selection)
- Chanson d'amour. Ullstein, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-550-08240-1 .
- Jeune fille. Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58389-6 .
- My Berlin child. Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-60521-5 .
- Une année studieuse . Gallimard, Paris 2012. ISBN 9782070126705 .
- Photographies . Gallimard, Paris 2012. ISBN 9782070138647 (with 67 illustrations).
- Un an après . Gallimard, Paris 2015. ISBN 9782070135431 .
- Paris, May '68 . Wagenbach, Berlin 2018. ISBN 978-3-8031-1331-3 .
Web links
- Anne Wiazemsky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Julia Encke : novel of the key to the French film: the girl and the director . Portrait from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on faz.net , July 26, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Disparition d'Anne Wiazemsky, actrice de la Nouvelle Vague et romancière malicieuse . AFP obituary in Le Point , October 5, 2017, accessed October 6, 2017 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiazemsky, Anne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French actress and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th October 2017 |
| Place of death | Paris |