Marguerite Duras

Biography

Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards. Duras was born Marguerite Donnadieu on 4 April 1914, in Gia Định, Cochinchina, French Indochina (now Vietnam). Her parents, Marie (née Legrand, 1877–1956) and Henri Donnadieu (1872–1921), were teachers from France who likely had met at Gia Định High School. They both had previous marriages. Marguerite had two brothers: Pierre, the older, and the younger Paul. Duras' father fell ill and he returned to France, where he died in 1921, when Duras was seven years old. Between 1922 and 1924, the family lived in France while her mother was on administrative leave. They then moved back to French Indochina when she was posted to Phnom Penh followed by Vĩnh Long and Sa Đéc. The family struggled financially, and her mother made a bad investment in an isolated property and area of rice farmland in Prey Nob, a story which was fictionalized in Un barrage contre le Pacifique (The Sea Wall). I…

Directed

1. India Song (1975) — Director
2. Baxter, Vera Baxter (1977) — Director
3. Nathalie Granger (1973) — Director
4. The Lorry (1977) — Director
5. Agatha and the Limitless Readings (1981) — Director
6. Le Navire Night (1979) — Director
7. Les Mains négatives (1978) — Director
8. Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert (1976) — Director
9. Destroy, She Said (1969) — Director
10. The Children (1985) — Director
11. Césarée (1978) — Director
12. La Musica (1967) — Director
13. L’homme atlantique (1981) — Director
14. Woman of the Ganges (1974) — Director
15. Entire Days in the Trees (1977) — Director
16. Jaune, Le Soleil (1971) — Director
17. Roman Dialogue (1983) — Director
18. Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne) (1979) — Director
19. Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver) (1979) — Director
20. Per un viaggio in Italia (1984) — Director

Also appeared in

1. India Song (1975) — Voix Intemporelle (voice)
2. Little Girl Blue (2023) — Self (archive footage)
3. Baxter, Vera Baxter (1977) — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
4. Nathalie Granger (1973) — (voice)
5. The Lorry (1977) — elle
6. Le Navire Night (1979) — (voice)
7. Agatha and the Limitless Readings (1981) — Narrator (voice)
8. Les Mains négatives (1978) — Self - Narrator (voice)
9. Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert (1976)
10. Delphine and Carole (2020) — Self (archive footage)
11. Godard Cinema (2023)
12. Césarée (1978) — Self - Narrator (voice)
13. L’homme atlantique (1981) — Narrator (voice)
14. Woman of the Ganges (1974) — Voice
15. The Death of the Young English Aviator (1993) — Self
16. One Minute for One Image (1983) — Self - Narrator
17. Pornotropic (2020) — Self - Writer (archive footage)
18. La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022) — Self (archive footage)
19. Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit (2018) — Self - Writer (archive footage)
20. Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver) (1979) — Narrator (voice)
21. Écrire (1994) — Self
22. Marguerite Duras and Stripper Lolo Pigalle (1965) — Self
23. Apostrophes (1975) — Self
24. Marguerite as She Was (2003) — Self (archive footage)
25. Marguerite Duras and the Prison Governess (1967) — Self
26. Dim Dam Dom (1965) — Self
27. Spécial cinéma (1974) — Self
28. Cygne I (1976) — Narrator (voice)
29. Duras and Cinema (2014) — self (archive footage)
30. Duras Shoots (1981) — Self
31. The Colour of Words (1984) — Self
32. Les vendredis d'Apostrophes (2015) — Self (archive footage)
33. The Places of Marguerite Duras (1976) — Self
34. Marguerite Duras in the Lions' Den (1966) — Self
35. Marguerite Duras and the '68ers (1968) — Self
36. Gaumont-Palace (1976) — Narrator (voice)
37. Marguerite Duras, l'écriture et la vie (2021) — Self
38. The Marguerite Duras Century — Self
39. Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson (1966) — Self
40. Marguerite Duras: Worn Out with Desire . . . to Write (1985) — Self