Irène Némirovsky

Nascimento : 1903-02-11, Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]

Morte : 1942-08-17

História

Irène Némirovsky was a Ukrainian-born author who lived most of her life in France. In 1942 she was arrested for being Jewish and died in Auschwitz.

Filmes

Suite Francesa
Novel
Durante os primeiros anos da ocupação alemã da França na Segunda Guerra Mundial, um romance floresce entre Lucile Angellier (Michelle Williams), um aldeã francesa e Bruno von Falk (Matthias Schoenaerts), um soldado alemão. França, 1940. Nos primeiros dias da ocupação alemã, a linda Lucile Angellier (Michelle Williams) está presa em uma existência sufocada com sua controladora madrasta (Kristin Scott Thomas), pois ambas esperam por notícias de seu marido, um prisioneiro de guerra. Refugiados parisienses começam a surgir em sua pequena cidade, logo seguidos por um regimento de soldados alemães que se estabelecem nas próprias casas dos moradores. Lucile inicialmente tenta ignorar Bruno von Falk (Matthias Schoenaerts), o bonito e refinado oficial alemão que ficou em sua casa. Mas logo, um poderoso amor os faz ficar juntos e também os leva a uma tragédia da guerra.
Quartet
Novel
Temptation and danger run high in this romantic drama. In a post-World War I world, handsome veteran Antoine is ready to live life with his beautiful wife, Marianne. But his happiness is threatened when Marianne's alluring sister, Evelyn, pulls him into a seductive web of deceit and infidelity.
My Daughter Joy
Novel
A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.
The ball
Novel
The daughter of a nouveau riche family, invited to an upper class ball meant to launch her in society, rejects the offer.
David Golder
Writer
David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squander his fortune.
Le bal
Novel
Two middle-class notions dealers live happily with their girl.But an inheritance turns these nice people into snob Nouveaux Riches;although the aristocracy invites them,the 'Tout-Paris ' laughs behind their back.