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French director and actor
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3 May 1929(Paris, France)
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Biography
Introduction
Gabriel Garran (pseudonym of Gabriel Gersztenkorn), born May 3, 1929 in Paris, is a French actor and theater director.
Biography
Born to a French Jewish family of Polish origins in Paris, he was fled persecution in Vichy France at the age of 11. After World War II, he became an actor and in 1965 founded the 'Théâtre de la Commune' in Aubervilliers, the first permanent theater in French suburbs. He managed that theater in the years 1960–1984 and staged numerous plays in it. At the end of the 1970s, Garran founded the Théâtre International de Langue Française (TILF) which focused on presenting plays from African Frech-speaking countries.
Cinema
Assistant director
- 1962 : Adieu Philippine, directed by Jacques Rozier
- 1962 : Janine, short film by Maurice Pialat
Director
- 1983 : Brûler les planches
Books
- Le Rire Du Fou. Paris: C. Bourgois, 1976. ISBN 2267000245
- Géographie française. Paris: Flammarion, 2014. ISBN 9782081310001
- Filiation. Paris: Riveneuve. 2017. ISBN 978-2-36013-446-5