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Antonin Artaud

Highest Rated: 98% The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

Lowest Rated: 87% Napoleon (1927)

Birthday: Sep 4, 1896

Birthplace: Marseille, France

Avant-garde theorist whose book "The Theater and Its Double" (1938) expresses his ideas on the "theater of cruelty." Artaud also wrote on the cinema as well as scripting and acting in several films. He turned in a memorable cameo as Marat in Abel Gance's "Napoleon" (1927) and was similarly striking in Carl Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928).

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98% 93% The Passion of Joan of Arc
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87% 90% Napoleon
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74% L'argent
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Filmography

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The Passion of Joan of Arc 98% 93% 1928 Jean Massieu Actor L'argent 74% 1928 Mazaud Actor Napoleon 87% 90% 1927 Marat Actor Seashell and the Clergyman 1927 Writer
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