Soledad Fox Maura ‘90, author of the new biography Exile, Writer, Soldier, Spy: Jorge Semprún (published by Arcade Publishing), will introduce a rare screening of Alain Resnais’ La Guerre est Finie, starring Yves Montand on Sunday, October 7 at Film Forum in NYC. Semprún’s screenplay, based largely on his own experiences as an agent for the Spanish Communist party, earned him his first Academy Award nomination. On Monday, October, 8 she will introduce a screening of Jorge Semprún’s sole directorial credit, Les Deux Mémoires, an interrogation of the origins, course and legacy of the Spanish Civil War, with all-star narrators Yves Montand, Maria Caesares, Costa-Gavras, et al. This film has never been screened in the U.S. English-language subtitles were created especially for this screening.
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