Jean Genet
Born: 1910-12-19 in Paris, France
Died: 1986-04-15
Known For: Writing
Biography
Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later took to writing. His major works include the novels The Thief's Journal and Our Lady of the Flowers, and the plays The Balcony, The Maids and The Screens.
Filmography
2024
- Flowers and Beasts ... (Novel)
2023
- Little Girl Blue as Self (archive footage)
2019
- André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer as Self - Writer (archive footage)
2010
- Jean Genet, le contre exemplaire as Self
2003
- Serva e Padrona ... (Novel)
1999
- Genet à Chatila ... (Writer)
1993
- Un boxeur endormi ... (Poem)
1986
- Le sphinx ... (Other)
1985
- Les Bonnes ... (Writer)
1982
- Querelle ... (Novel)
- Jean Genet: Entretien avec Bertrand Poirot-Delpech as Self
1981
- Black Mirror ... (Screenplay)
1975
- Apostrophes as Self (archive footage)
- Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète ... (Writer)
- Ritual ... (Original Story)
- Poor Pretty Eddie ... (Novel)
- The Maids ... (Theatre Play)
1972
- Song of Love as Prisoner in Duo Fantasy (uncredited)
1970
- Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy as Self
- Shiraz 70
- Mayday as Self
1968
- Chicago as Self
1967
- Condemned and Possessed ... (Poem)
1966
- Mademoiselle ... (Story)
- Deathwatch ... (Writer)
1963
- The Balcony ... (Theatre Play)
1950
- Disorder as Self