Santiago Amigorena
Santiago Amigorena (Spanish pronunciation: [sanˈtjaɣo amiɣoˈɾena]; born 15 February 1962) is an Argentine screenwriter, film producer, film director and writer. In 2007, he was nominated at the Mar del Plata Film Festival for Best Film with A Few Days in September.
Santiago Amigorena

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- Born
- 1962. · Buenos Aires.
- Nationality
- Argentina and France.
- Occupation
- writer, film producer, film director, screenwriter, painter and actor.
- Education
- Lycée Rodin.
- Honours
- Prix François-Mauriac.
- Languages
- French and Spanish.
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Santiago Amigorena (Spanish pronunciation: [sanˈtjaɣo amiɣoˈɾena]; born 15 February 1962) is an Argentine screenwriter, film producer, film director and writer. In 2007, he was nominated at the Mar del Plata Film Festival for Best Film with A Few Days in September.
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Santiago Amigorena (born 1962) is an Argentine and French actor, film actor and film director, among other activities. The actor was born in Buenos Aires. Santiago Amigorena studied at Lycée Rodin.
Languages used include French and Spanish. The actor received Prix François-Mauriac.
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Family and personal life
Family and personal life
In 2003, he married actress Julie Gayet, but they divorced in 2006.
Literary work
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Une enfance laconique (1998), P.O.L (ISBN 2-86744-619-8) Une jeunesse aphone: les premiers arrangements (2000), P.O.L (ISBN 2-86744-767-4) Une adolescence taciturne: le second exil (2002), P.O.L (ISBN 2-86744-868-9) Le Premier Amour (2004), P.O.L (ISBN 2-84682-027-9) 1978 (2009), P.O.L (ISBN 978-2-84682-308-1) La Première Défaite (2012), P.O.L (ISBN 978-2818016640) Des jours que je n'ai pas oubliés (2014), P.O.L (ISBN 978-2-8180-2002-9) Mes derniers mots (2015), P.O.L (ISBN 978-2-8180-3566-5) Les Premières Fois (2016), P.O.L (ISBN 978-28180-4042-3) Le Ghetto intérieur (2019), P.O.L (ISBN 978-28180-4782-8) Winner of the "Prix des libraires de Nancy" - Le Point, 201911 Folio Booksellers' Prize, 2021 Selected for the Prix Goncourt, Prix Renaudot, Prix Médicis 2019 Il y a un seul amour (2020), Stock (ISBN 978-27578-8739-4) Le Premier Exil (2021), P.O.L (ISBN 978-2-8180-5359-1) Selected for the Prix Médicis, 2021
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Director and screenwriter
A few days in September (2006) Another Silence (2011) Les enfants rouges (2014)
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Screenwriter
La Jalousie, by Christophe Loizillon (1989) Jean Galmot, adventurer, by Alain Maline (1990) Maigret et la maison du juge (TV movie), by Bertrand Van Effenterre (1992) Les gens normaux n'ont rien d'exceptionnel, by Laurence Ferreira Barbosa (1993) Maigret et les caves du Majestic (TV movie), by Claude Goretta (1993) Le Fils du requin, by Agnès Merlet (1993) Le Péril jeune, by Cédric Klapisch (1994) Quand les étoiles rencontrent la mer, by Raymond Rajaonarivelo (1996) Kini and Adams, by Idrissa Ouedraogo (1997) Le Silence de Rak, by Christophe Loizillon (1997) After sex, by Brigitte Roüan (1997) La voie est libre, by Stéphane Clavier (1998) Tokyo Eyes, by Jean-Pierre Limosin (1998) La révolution sexuelle n'a pas eu lieu, by Judith Cahen (1999) Rien à faire, by Marion Vernoux (1999) Peut-être, by Cédric Klapisch (1999) Regarde-moi (en face), by Marco Nicoletti (2000) Bon plan, by Jérôme Lévy (2000) Tu ne marcheas jamais seul, by Gilles Chevallier (2001) Ma caméra et moi, by Christophe Loizillon (2002) The Wolf of the West Coast, by Hugo Santiago (2002) Not for, or Against, by Cédric Klapisch (2002) Upside Down, by Juan Diego Solanas (2012) Ce qui nous lie, by Cédric Klapisch (2017) Si tu voyais son coeur, by Joan Chemla (2017) Someone, Somewhere, by Cédric Klapisch (2019) Gloomy Eyes by Fernando Maldonado & Jorge Tereso (2019) Last Words by Jonathan Nossiter based on Santiago Amigorena's book "Mes derniers mots" (2020) Rise by Cédric Klapisch (2022)

Santiago Amigorena lors de la cérémonie de clôture du Festival de cinéma européen des Arcs en décembre 2019.
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