Gabriel Garran (

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of Gabriel Gersztenkorn; 3 May 1929 – 6 May 2022) was a French actor and theatre director.

Biography

Born to a French Jewish family of Polish origins in Paris, he fled persecution in

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at the age of 11. After

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, he became an actor and in 1965 founded the 'Théâtre de la Commune' in

Aubervilliers Aubervilliers () is a commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, Île-de-France region, northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Albertivillariens'' or ''Albertivillariennes''. Geography Locali ...

, the first permanent theater in French suburbs. He managed that theater in the years 1960–1984 and staged numerous plays in it. At the end of the 1970s, Garran founded the Théâtre International de Langue Française (TILF) which focused on presenting plays from African French-speaking countries. Paré, François. Exiguity: Reflections on the margins of literature, pp. 113. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2006.

Cinema

Assistant director

* 1962: '' Adieu Philippine'', directed by Jacques Rozier * 1962: ''Janine'',

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Maurice Pialat Maurice Pialat (; 31 August 1925 – 11 January 2003) was a French film director, screenwriter and actor known for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films. His work is often described as " realist",

Director

* 1983: ''Brûler les planches''

Books

* ''Le Rire Du Fou''. Paris: C. Bourgois, 1976. * ''Géographie française''. Paris: Flammarion, 2014. * ''Filiation''. Paris: Riveneuve. 2017.

References

External links

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Gabriel Garran
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Garran reads from his poems
in Kliclo's atelier 1929 births 2022 deaths French male actors French theatre managers and producers French theatre directors French film directors French people of Polish-Jewish descent {{France-film-director-stub