Armand Salacrou

Writing

Armand Salacrou

Born 1899-08-09 · Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France

Armand Camille Salacrou (9 August 1899 – 23 November 1989) was a French dramatist. He was born in Rouen, but spent most of his childhood at Le Havre, and moved to Paris in 1917. His first works show the influence of the Surrealists. He was the owner of a profitable advertising firm, but sold it in order to devote his time to writing plays. Encouraged by Charles Dullin, he wrote in a wide range of styles and enjoyed great success from the mid-1930s. His later work is usually grouped with that of the Existentialists. He flirted with communism during the 1920s and criticized capitalism in his play Boulevard Durand. During the Nazi occupation of France, he participated in the clandestine French resistance, an experience which he celebrated in Les Nuits de la colère. He was a member of the Académie Goncourt, and a library in his home town is named after him. Source: Article "Armand Salacrou" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Monte Cristo poster
6.9

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.

Monte Cristo

1929

The Beauty of the Devil poster
7.2

Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age ... whereupon Mephistopheles, agent of Lucifer, appears as a virile, handsome young man and exchanges bodies with him to induce Faust to sign a pact to exchange his soul for renewed youth, riches and power. But though the "new" Faust is attracted by the material improvements in his life, he remains wary of signing, while Mephistopheles, now posing as the aged professor whose body he inhabits, must find a way to trick him into signing the pact - and dissuade him from the love of a gypsy girl who prays for his soul - or find himself damned by his own Master...

The Beauty of the Devil

1950

Histoire de rire poster
9.0

When the friendship between two men is put to the test by two women, we can only laugh because the author has managed to adapt this situation in a superb comedy.

Histoire de rire

1982

Foolish Husbands poster
6.7

By mutual agreement, a man and a woman are separated to allow the wife to join her lover.

Foolish Husbands

1941

The Man from Nowhere poster
6.8

Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely lucky at several gambling resorts. He returns home and discovers that a drowned man, fished out of the river, bears an uncanny likeness to him and is being buried by his family as him. This, to him, is a pleasant turn of events and he goes to Rome, where he falls in love with Louise Paleari. Count Papiano, a jealous suitor of Louise's, threatens him with arrest unless he produces credentials to prove his identity.

The Man from Nowhere

1937