Albert Camus

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Albert Camus

Born November 7, 1913 · Dréan, Algeria

Died January 4, 1960 · aged 46

Albert Camus (/kæˈmuː/ kam-OO,French: [albɛʁ kamy] ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, novelist, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Re…

Known For

The StrangerThe Stranger · 2025
The Stranger
6.82025
MovieDramaCrime
Algiers, 1938. Meursault, a quiet and unassuming employee in his early thirties, attends his mother's funeral without shedding a tear. The next day, he begins a casual affair with Marie, a work colleague. He quickly slips back into his usual routine.
La curaLa cura · 2022
La cura
2022
MovieDrama
During the Covid-19 lockdown, a film crew is shooting an adaptation of Camus' La Peste. Reality and fiction start to blur between each other.
DemonsDemons · 2000
Demons
5.82000
Movie
In the last house just behind the western borders of Russia, between Paris/Texas and Korleput/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cindy Sherman, Dogma 95 and Duma 2000, Frank Castorf directs his virst video production "Dämonen" ("Demons") as a sort of post-Soviet-panslavistic panopticon in his own dramaturgy based on Dostojewski's "Demons" and Camus' "The Posessed". All that in set designer Bert Neumann's industrial-designed bungalow (with swimming pool) built onto forbidding landscape.
Jonah, or the Artist at WorkJonah, or the Artist at Work · 1984
Jonah, or the Artist at Work
1984
MovieDrama
A painter lives with his wife and four children in a studio. Due to creative frustrations and the irritation of admirers and hangers-on he becomes increasingly reclusive, finally sealing himself away in the attic. Based on an Albert Camus story.
Far from MenFar from Men · 2015
Far from Men
6.82015
MovieDramaWar
A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident who is ordered to be turned in to the authorities.
FateFate · 2001
Fate
7.22001
MovieDrama
Musa, a customs clerk, sees life as absurd. He drifts with events; his mother's death, though loved, brings him strange joy.
The StrangerThe Stranger · 1967
The Stranger
6.81967
MovieDrama
Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder.
The MisunderstandingThe Misunderstanding · 1972
The Misunderstanding
7.01972
MovieTV MovieDrama
Adaptation of an eponymous Albert Camus novel.

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