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Jules-César Muracciole
2000 - 45 min - Betacam SP - France
This film traces the life of the Austrian writer of Sephardic origin, Elias Canetti, born in 1905 in Ruse (Bulgaria). A cosmopolitan, polyglott author, from a Judeo-Spanish family, immersed in various cultures, in 1924 he entered Karl Krauss’s "school of resistance" which was to mark his conscience and his writing profoundly.
Two trips to Berlin in 1928 and 1929 brought him into contact with the great names of the literary avant-garde of the times such as Brecht, Georges Grosz, John Heartfield, Isaac Babel.
On his return to Vienna, he gave shape to his experience of the Berlin "chaos" in his first novel "Auto-da-fe" which only found a publisher in 1935. He then wrote many novels and plays, won innumerable German, Austrian and Swiss literary prizes.
An unknown author until 1960, he became extremely famous between 1963 and 1980. Since 1981 he has chosen to make a complete break with the media world. The third volume of the autobiography "Jeu de regards : Histoire d’une vie, 1931-1937" and "Le Cœur secret de l’horloge" have since then broken the silence of the old sage.
Author-Director : Jules-César Muracciole
Author : Olivier Barrot
Delegate Producer : PB productions
Broadcasting Co-producer : France 3
Contribution : CNC