Jean-Claude Grumberg
Jean-Claude Grumberg (born 1939) is a French playwright and author of children's books.
Before becoming a playwright, Jean-Claude Grumberg held several jobs including working as a tailor, he takes to the middle part of his play L'Atelier. He discovered drama being an actor in the company. He became a writer in 1968 with Demain, une fenêtre sur rue, and short texts like Rixe which played at the Comédie-Française. He writes about what haunts him since childhood: the death of his father in the Nazi death camps: Maman revient pauvre orphelin, Dreyfus (1974), L'Atelier (1979) and Zone libre (1990).
In 1998, L'Atelier returned to Théâtre Hébertot in Paris, won great success and won the 1999 Molière for best play directory.
In film, he is writer: Les Années Sandwiches, co-writer with François Truffaut for The Last Metro, La Petite Apocalypse of Costa-Gavras, Le Plus Beau Pays du monde by Marcel Bluwal (1999), Fait d'hiver Robert Enrico (1999). For television, he wrote scenarios Thérèse Humbert, Music Hall, by Marcel Bluwal, Les Lendemains qui chantent, by Jacques Fansten et Julien l'apprenti, by Jacques Otmezguine.
He is one of the few contemporary French playwrights alive to be studied in school (including L'Atelier). Jean-Claude Grumberg received the Grand Prize of the Académie française in 1991 and SACD Prize in 1999 for lifetime achievement; the Molière's best playwright in 1991 for Zone libre and in 1999 L'Atelier.
Jean-Claude Grumberg is the father of actress Olga Grumberg.
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Jean-Claude Grumberg Movies
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Lucie Aubrac (1997)
Lucie Aubrac
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IMDb: 6.4
1997
A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of...
Release : 1997.02.26
Popularity : 5.879
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The Little Apocalypse (1993)
The Little Apocalypse
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IMDb: 5.6
1993
An unknown Polish writer can't publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get some of the profit for herself. She finally finds a...
Release : 1993.02.10
Popularity : 2.428
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Eden Is West (2009)
Eden Is West
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IMDb: 6.3
2009
Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided...
Release : 2009.02.11
Popularity : 6.626
Jean-Claude Grumberg TV Shows
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At Theatre Tonight (1966)
At Theatre Tonight
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IMDb: 7.5
1966
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days,...
Release : 1966.07.21
Popularity : 13.409