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Jean-Paul Sartre is a Actor and Scriptwriter French born on 21 june 1905 at Paris (France)

Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre
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Birth name Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
Nationality France
Birth 21 june 1905 at Paris (France)
Death 15 april 1980 (at 74 years) at Paris (France)
Awards Nobel Prize in Literature

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (/ˈsɑrtrə/; [saʁtʁ]; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism.

His work has also influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies, and continues to influence these disciplines. Sartre has also been noted for his open relationship with the prominent feminist theorist Simone de Beauvoir.

He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature and refused it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution".

Biography

Early life
Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris as the only child of Jean-Baptiste Sartre, an officer of the French Navy, and Anne-Marie Schweitzer. His mother was of Alsatian origin and the first cousin of Nobel Prize laureate Albert Schweitzer. (Her father, Charles Schweitzer, was the older brother of Albert Schweitzer's father, Louis Théophile.)
When Sartre was two years old, his father died of a fever. Anne-Marie moved back to her parents' house in Meudon, where she raised Sartre with help from her father, a teacher of German who taught Sartre mathematics and introduced him to classical literature at a very early age. When he was twelve, Sartre's mother remarried, and the family moved to La Rochelle, where he was frequently bullied.

As a teenager in the 1920s, Sartre became attracted to philosophy upon reading Henri Bergson's essay Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness. He studied and earned a degree in philosophy in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure, an institution of higher education that was the alma mater for several prominent French thinkers and intellectuals. It was at ENS that Sartre began his lifelong, sometimes fractious, friendship with Raymond Aron. Sartre was influenced by many aspects of Western philosophy, adopting ideas from Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Søren Kierkegaard, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, among others. Perhaps the most decisive influence on Sartre's philosophical development was his weekly attendance at Alexandre Kojève's seminars, which continued for a number of years.

From his first years in the École Normale, Sartre was one of its fiercest pranksters; In 1927, his antimilitarist satirical cartoon in the revue of the school, coauthored with Georges Canguilhem, particularly upset the director Gustave Lanson. In the same year, with his comrades Nizan, Larroutis, Baillou and Herland, he organized a media prank following Charles Lindbergh's successful New York-Paris flight; Sartre & Co. called newspapers and informed them that Lindbergh was going to be awarded an honorary École degree. Many newspapers, including Le Petit Parisien, announced the event on 25 May. Thousands, including journalists and curious spectators, showed up, unaware that what they were witnessing was a stunt involving a Lindbergh look-alike. The public's resultant outcry forced Lanson to resign.

In 1929 at the École Normale, he met Simone de Beauvoir, who studied at the Sorbonne and later went on to become a noted philosopher, writer, and feminist. The two became inseparable and lifelong companions, initiating a romantic relationship, though they were not monogamous. The first time Sartre took the exam to become a college instructor, he failed. But he took it a second time and was first in his class, with Beauvoir second.

Sartre was drafted into the French Army from 1939 to 1941 and served as a meteorologist for some time. He later argued in 1959 that each French person was responsible for the collective crimes during the Algerian War of Independence.

Together, Sartre and de Beauvoir challenged the cultural and social assumptions and expectations of their upbringings, which they considered bourgeois, in both lifestyle and thought. The conflict between oppressive, spiritually destructive conformity (mauvaise foi, literally, "bad faith") and an "authentic" way of "being" became the dominant theme of Sartre's early work, a theme embodied in his principal philosophical work L'Être et le Néant (Being and Nothingness) (1943). Sartre's introduction to his philosophy is his work Existentialism and Humanism (1946), originally presented as a lecture.


World War II
In 1939 Sartre was drafted into the French army, where he served as a meteorologist. He was captured by German troops in 1940 in Padoux, and he spent nine months as a prisoner of war—in Nancy and finally in Stalag 12D, Trier, where he wrote his first theatrical piece, Barionà, fils du tonnerre, a drama concerning Christmas. It was during this period of confinement that Sartre read Heidegger's Being and Time, later to become a major influence on his own essay on phenomenological ontology. Because of poor health (he claimed that his poor eyesight and exotropia affected his balance) Sartre was released in April 1941. Given civilian status, he recovered his teaching position at Lycée Pasteur near Paris, settled at the Hotel Misgiven a new position at Lycée Condorcet, replacing a Jewish teacher who had been forbidden to teach by Vichy law.



After coming back to Paris in May 1941, he participated in the founding of the underground group Socialisme et Liberté with other writers de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Toussaint Desanti and his wife Dominique Desanti, Jean Kanapa, and École Normale students. In August Sartre and de Beauvoir went to the French Riviera seeking the support of André Gide and André Malraux. However, both Gide and Malraux were undecided, and this may have been the cause of Sartre's disappointment and discouragement. Socialisme et liberté soon dissolved and Sartre decided to write instead of being involved in active resistance. He then wrote Being and Nothingness, The Flies, and No Exit, none of which was censored by the Germans, and also contributed to both legal and illegal literary magazines.

After August 1944 and the Liberation of Paris, he wrote Anti-Semite and Jew. In the book he tries to explain the etiology of "hate" by analyzing antisemitic hate. Sartre was a very active contributor to Combat, a newspaper created during the clandestine period by Albert Camus, a philosopher and author who held similar beliefs. Sartre and de Beauvoir remained friends with Camus until 1951, with the publication of Camus's The Rebel. Later, while Sartre was labeled by some authors as a resistant, the French philosopher and resistant Vladimir Jankelevitch criticized Sartre's lack of political commitment during the German occupation, and interpreted his further struggles for liberty as an attempt to redeem himself. According to Camus, Sartre was a writer who resisted, not a resister who wrote.

In 1945, after the war ended, Sartre moved to an apartment on the rue Bonaparte which was where he was to produce most of his subsequent work, and where he lived until 1962. It was from there that he helped establish a quarterly literary and political review, Les Temps Modernes (Modern Times), in part to popularize his thought. He ceased teaching and devoted his time to writing and political activism. He would draw on his war experiences for his great trilogy of novels, Les Chemins de la Liberté (The Roads to Freedom) (1945–1949).


Cold War politics and anticolonialism

The first period of Sartre's career, defined in large part by Being and Nothingness (1943), gave way to a second period—when the world was perceived as split into communist and capitalist blocs—of highly publicized political involvement. His 1948 play Les mains sales (Dirty Hands) in particular explored the problem of being a politically "engaged" intellectual. He embraced Marxism, but did not join the Communist Party. While a Marxist, Sartre attacked what he saw as abuses of freedom and human rights by the Soviet Union. He was one of the first French journalists to expose the existence of the slave labor camps, and vehemently opposed the invasion of Hungary, Russian anti-Semitism, and the execution of dissidents. As an anti-colonialist, Sartre took a prominent role in the struggle against French rule in Algeria, and the use of torture and concentration camps by the French in Algeria. He became an eminent supporter of the FLN in the Algerian War and was one of the signatories of the Manifeste des 121. Consequently, Sartre became a domestic target of the paramilitary Organisation de l'armée secrète (OAS), escaping two bomb attacks in the early '60s. (He had an Algerian mistress, Arlette Elkaïm, who became his adopted daughter in 1965.) He opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and, along with Bertrand Russell and others, organized a tribunal intended to expose U.S. war crimes, which became known as the Russell Tribunal in 1967.



His work after Stalin's death, the Critique de la raison dialectique (Critique of Dialectical Reason), appeared in 1960 (a second volume appearing posthumously). In the Critique Sartre set out to give Marxism a more vigorous intellectual defense than it had received until then; he ended by concluding that Marx's notion of "class" as an objective entity was fallacious. Sartre's emphasis on the humanist values in the early works of Marx led to a dispute with a leading leftist intellectual in France in the 1960s, Louis Althusser, who claimed that the ideas of the young Marx were decisively superseded by the "scientific" system of the later Marx.

Sartre went to Cuba in the 1960s to meet Fidel Castro and spoke with Ernesto "Che" Guevara. After Guevara's death, Sartre would declare him to be "not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age" and the "era's most perfect man." Sartre would also compliment Guevara by professing that "he lived his words, spoke his own actions and his story and the story of the world ran parallel." However he stood against the persecution of gays by Castro's régime, which he compared to Nazi persecution of the Jews, and said: "Homosexuals are Cuba's Jews".

During a collective hunger strike in 1974, Sartre visited Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader in Stammheim Prison and criticized the harsh conditions of imprisonment. Towards the end of his life, Sartre became an anarchist.


Late life and death

In 1964 Sartre renounced literature in a witty and sardonic account of the first ten years of his life, Les mots (Words). The book is an ironic counterblast to Marcel Proust, whose reputation had unexpectedly eclipsed that of André Gide (who had provided the model of littérature engagée for Sartre's generation). Literature, Sartre concluded, functioned ultimately as a bourgeois substitute for real commitment in the world. In October 1964, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature but he declined it. He was the first Nobel Laureate to voluntarily decline the prize, and he had previously refused the Légion d'honneur, in 1945. The prize was announced on 22 October 1964; on 14 October, Sartre had written a letter to the Nobel Institute, asking to be removed from the list of nominees, and warning that he would not accept the prize if awarded, but the letter went unread; on 23 October, Le Figaro published a statement by Sartre explaining his refusal. He said he did not wish to be "transformed" by such an award, and did not want to take sides in an East vs. West cultural struggle by accepting an award from a prominent Western cultural institution. After being awarded the prize he tried to escape the media by hiding in the house of Simone's sister Hélène de Beauvoir in Goxwiller, Alsace.



Though his name was then a household word (as was "existentialism" during the tumultuous 1960s), Sartre remained a simple man with few possessions, actively committed to causes until the end of his life, such as the May 1968 strikes in Paris during the summer of 1968 during which he was arrested for civil disobedience. President Charles de Gaulle intervened and pardoned him, commenting that "you don't arrest Voltaire."



In 1975, when asked how he would like to be remembered, Sartre replied:


I would like [people] to remember Nausea, [my plays] No Exit and The Devil and the Good Lord, and then my two philosophical works, more particularly the second one, Critique of Dialectical Reason. Then my essay on Genet, Saint Genet.... If these are remembered, that would be quite an achievement, and I don't ask for more. As a man, if a certain Jean-Paul Sartre is remembered, I would like people to remember the milieu or historical situation in which I lived,... how I lived in it, in terms of all the aspirations which I tried to gather up within myself.
Sartre's physical condition deteriorated, partially because of the merciless pace of work (and using drugs for this reason, i.e., amphetamine) he put himself through during the writing of the Critique and a massive analytical biography of Gustave Flaubert (The Family Idiot), both of which remained unfinished. He became almost completely blind in 1973. Sartre was a notorious chain smoker, which could also have contributed to the deterioration of his health.

Sartre died 15 April 1980 in Paris from edema of the lung. He lies buried in Cimetière de Montparnasse in Paris. His funeral was well attended, with estimates of the number of mourners along the two hour march ranging from 15,000 to over 50,000.

Best films

The Proud and the Beautiful (1953)
(Original Story)
The Respectful Prostitute (1952)
(Theatre Play)
The Witches of Salem (1957)
(Scriptwriter)

Usually with

Georges Auric
Georges Auric
(4 films)
Orson Welles
Orson Welles
(3 films)
Serge Roullet
Serge Roullet
(2 films)
Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jean-Paul Sartre (20 films)

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Actor

Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah, 40minutes
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about racism, Films about religion, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about racism, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Claude Lanzmann, Marcel Ophuls, France Roche, Jean-Paul Sartre
Roles lui-même (images d'archive)
Rating67% 3.385813.385813.385813.385813.38581
Centré sur un entretien où Claude Lanzmann revient sur sa vie et sur la réalisation de Shoah - les choix initiaux, les embûches, les dangers, la recherche de moyens pour mener à bien cette entreprise, l’épuisement…, Adam Benzine donne aussi à voir des fragments des rushes de Shoah.
Disorder Is 20 Years Old, 1h
Directed by Jacques Baratier
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Actors Louis Arbessier, Antonin Artaud, Roger Blin, Marie-Hélène Breillat, Blanchette Brunoy, Philippe Clay
Roles lui-même
Rating67% 3.3803253.3803253.3803253.3803253.380325
À partir de son court métrage Désordre, tourné en 1947-48, Jacques Baratier revisite, vingt ans après, le quartier parisien de Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Confrontation de ce proche passé avec les années 1960, foisonnement culturel et intellectuel, variations autour de l'existentialisme...
With André Gide, 1h29
Directed by Marc Allégret
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Jean Desailly, Gérard Philipe, Jean-Louis Barrault, Roland Alexandre, Roger Vadim, Renée Faure
Roles Self (scenes deleted)
Rating69% 3.450883.450883.450883.450883.45088
Portrait intime d'André Gide, illustré d'archives personnelles de Gide, mais qui retrace aussi l'œuvre de Gide, ses rencontres (Jean-Paul Sartre, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, etc.), la NRF...
Disorder
Disorder (1950)
, 18minutes
Directed by Jacques Baratier
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Actors Annabella, Blanchette Brunoy, Jean Cocteau, Sophie Desmarets, Jean Genet, Juliette Gréco
Roles Self
Rating58% 2.9191952.9191952.9191952.9191952.919195
Dans le quartier de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, à Paris, au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, des rencontres témoignent de l'émancipation de la jeunesse et du bouillonnement créatif dans le domaine des arts.
Life Begins Tomorrow, 1h27
Directed by Nicole Védrès
Origin France
Genres Drama, Documentary
Actors Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Prévert, Darius Milhaud, Charlie Chaplin, George Bernard Shaw
Roles Self
Rating63% 3.1792753.1792753.1792753.1792753.179275
Un jeune provincial, incarné par Jean-Pierre Aumont, cherche à gagner Paris en faisant de l'autostop. Ce n'est pas une voiture qui le recueille mais un hélicoptère conduit par un journaliste. Celui-ci incite le jeune homme à rencontrer le père de l'existentialisme, Jean-Paul Sartre, puis un psychanalyste éminent, Daniel Lagache. Le provincial apprend que

Scriptwriter

The Childhood of a Leader, 1h55
Directed by Brady Corbet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror
Themes Political films
Actors Robert Pattinson, Liam Cunningham, Bérénice Bejo, Stacy Martin, Yolande Moreau, Michel Subor
Rating61% 3.051483.051483.051483.051483.05148
In 1918, an American boy living in France with his parents witnesses the creation of the Treaty of Versailles, which shapes his beliefs and causes him to develop a terrifying ego.
Bar 21
Bar 21 (1979)
, 2h15
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Roles Writer
Rating58% 2.9072752.9072752.9072752.9072752.907275
Au bar 21, les hommes peuvent oublier leurs problèmes dans l'alcool, entourés de belles femmes. L'hôtesse Linda Wongsue (ลินดา) décide d'abandonner son travail dans ce bar pour retrouver son petit ami, Parn (พันธุ์), dont elle paie les études depuis quatre ans. Elle va à Chiang Maï pour la cérémonie de remise des diplômes de l'université. Mais dès que son petit ami a son diplôme en poche il rompt sa promesse de mariage et la largue. Linda retourne alors en train à Bangkok. Dans le train trois jeunes de la haute société la harcèlent; deux jeunes paysans, Sing (สิงห์) et Rot (รอด) , la défendent. Rot est tué. Les trois voyous, bien que l'un d'eux soit Akom, le fils d'un député, sont immédiatement arrêtés par la police et mis en prison pour assassinat. Mais les ennuis continuent... Linda rencontre le fils d'une riche famille, le gentil Thanong (ทนง).
The Wall
The Wall (1967)
, 1h31
Directed by Serge Roullet
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Peter Kassovitz
Roles Short Story
Rating66% 3.307033.307033.307033.307033.30703
Pendant la guerre d'Espagne, trois hommes ont été arrêtés et emprisonnés par les troupes franquistes. Condamnés à mort, ils passent ensemble leur dernière nuit dans la prison où un médecin belge s'est joint à eux pour, dit-il, les réconforter. L'un des trois pourra avoir la vie sauve en échange d'une dénonciation.
The Wall
The Wall (1967)
, 1h30
Directed by Serge Roullet
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Peter Kassovitz
Roles Short Story
Rating66% 3.307033.307033.307033.307033.30703
Pendant la guerre d'Espagne, trois hommes ont été arrêtés et emprisonnés par les troupes franquistes : Pablo est un ouvrier ami de l'anarchiste Ramon, Tom s'est engagé dans les Brigades internationales et Juan, encore adolescent, est le frère d'un militant. Condamnés à mort, ils passent ensemble leur dernière nuit dans la prison où un médecin belge s'est joint à eux pour, dit-il, les réconforter. L'un des trois pourra avoir la vie sauve en échange d'une dénonciation.
The Condemned of Altona, 1h54
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell, Fredric March, Robert Wagner, Françoise Prévost, Gabriele Tinti
Roles Theatre Play
Rating67% 3.392783.392783.392783.392783.39278
L'industriel Albrecht von Gerlach découvre qu'il est près de mourir et fait venir à lui son fils avocat Werner qu'il souhaite nommer comme son successeur. Sa femme Johanna, actrice engagée dans une œuvre de Brecht contre le nazisme découvre, les secrets de famille : le fils aîné Frantz, criminel nazi de la SS tenu pour mort, se cache en fait depuis seize ans dans le grenier. Il est servi par sa sœur qui lui décrit une Allemagne défaite et humiliée encore sous le joug des envahisseurs.
Freud: The Secret Passion, 1h56
Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Psychologie, Psychanalyse
Actors Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Susan Kohner, Fernand Ledoux, Larry Parks, David McCallum
Roles Writer
Rating71% 3.589733.589733.589733.589733.58973
This pseudo-biographical movie depicts Sigmund Freud's life from 1885 to 1890. At this time, most of his colleagues refused to treat hysteric patients, believing their symptoms to be ploys for attention. Freud, however, learns to use hypnosis to uncover the reasons for the patients' neuroses through his mentor and friend Josef Breuer. His main patient in the film is a young woman who refused to drink water and is plagued by a recurrent nightmare.
No Exit
No Exit (1962)
, 1h25
Directed by Orson Welles, Tad Danielewski
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Viveca Lindfors, Rita Gam, Ben Piazza, Mirta Miller
Roles Story
Rating66% 3.3243153.3243153.3243153.3243153.324315
The Valet (Manuel Rosón) enters a hotel room with Joseph Garcin (Morgan Sterne) in tow. The windowless room has a single entrance and no mirrors. Two women, Inès Serrano (Viveca Lindfors) and Estelle Rigault (Rita Gam), are then led in; afterwards, the Valet leaves and locks the door. Realizing that they are in hell, the trio expects to be tortured; however, no torturer is forthcoming. While waiting, they strike up a conversation and discuss each other's sins, desires, and unpleasant memories; they slowly realize that such probing is the form of torture they are meant to receive.
The Witches of Salem, 2h37
Directed by Raymond Rouleau
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Prison films, Films about religion, Théâtre, Witches in film, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays
Actors Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Mylène Demongeot, Jean Debucourt, Alfred Adam, Pierre Larquey
Rating71% 3.583963.583963.583963.583963.58396
1692, Salem, Massachusetts. John Proctor is the only member in the town's assembly who resists the attempts of the rich to gain more wealth on the expense of the poor farmers, thus incurring the wrath of deputy governor Danforth. Proctor's sternly puritanical wife, Elizabeth, is sick and has not shared his bed for months, and he was seduced by his maid, Abigail. When he ends his affair with her, Abigail and several other local girls turn to slave Tituba. Reverend Parris catches the girls in the forest as they partake in what appears to be witchcraft. Abigail and the rest deny it, saying that they have been bewitched. A wave of hysteria engulfs the town, and Danforth uses the girls' accusations to instigate a series of trials, during which his political enemies are accused of heresy and executed. When Abigail blames Elizabeth Proctor, the latter rejects John's pleas to defraud Abigail as an adulteress. Eventually, both Proctors are put on trial and refuse to sign a confession. The townspeople rebel, but not before John is hanged with other defendants; his pregnant wife has been spared. Elizabeth tells the angry crowd to let Abigail live.