Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras was born on Apr 04, 1914 in French Cochinchina [now Vietnam]. Marguerite Duras's big-screen debut came with This Angry Age directed by René Clément in 1957. Marguerite Duras is known for Half Past Ten directed by Sascha Bachmann, Michael F. Stoerzer stars as Mark and Kerstin Linnartz as Eva. Marguerite Duras has got 6 awards and 7 nominations so far. The most recent award Marguerite Duras achieved is Berlin International Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Marguerite Duras plays is O que a noite rouba ao dia which will be released on Dec 10, 2018.

Ms. Duras was born in southern Vietnam and lost her father at age 4. The family savings of 20 years bought the family a small plot in Cambodia, but everything was lost in a single season's flooding. The disaster killed her mother as a result. After high school in Saigon, Ms. Duras left Indochina to study law in Paris. As a young woman, she worked as a secretary in France's Ministry of Colonies from 1935 to 1941, before becoming a writer. She wrote 34 novels from 1943 to 1993, and became an enduring part of Paris's intellectual elite. In addition to her writing, she also directed about 16 films. For the film India Song (1975), she won France's Cinema Academy Grand Prix. She claimed to have rescued French president François Mitterand during World War II, when he was a resistance fighter and remained a friend and unconditional campaigner. Her most noted novel is "L'Amant", the story of a girl, from a poor French family in Indochina, who becomes the mistress of a wealthy Indochinese notable's son.