Lesser-Known Author and Auteur Collaborations
This list enumerates successful but often forgotten sets of adaptions between an auteur and an author.
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Which of these is your favorite? If you haven't seen any, you can vote for the one you are the most eager to discover.
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2. Both the author and the auteur must be deceased
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- DirectorLaurence OlivierStarsLaurence OlivierJean SimmonsJohn LauriePrince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsTatsuya NakadaiMichiyo AratamaChikage AwashimaA Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsLyudmila SavelevaVyacheslav TikhonovSergey BondarchukThe Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812.Sergey Bondarchuk and Lev Tolstoy
1. War and Peace (1965)
2. War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1965)
3. War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova (1966)
4. War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 (1967)
5. War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov (1967) - DirectorDavid LeanStarsJohn MillsValerie HobsonTony WagerA humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJeanne MoreauOskar WernerHenri SerreDecades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsTatsuya NakadaiAkira IshihamaShima IwashitaWhen a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.
- DirectorMax OphülsStarsAnton WalbrookSimone SignoretSerge ReggianiSoldiers, chambermaids, poets, prostitutes, aristocrats-all are on equal footing in this multi-character merry-go-round of love and infidelity.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsSetsuko HaraYôko TsukasaMariko OkadaA widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJeanette NolanDan O'HerlihyMacbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsMichel SerraultCharles AznavourMonique ChaumetteLabbé is a quiet hatter in a small town, living with his handicapped wife who never goes out. His neighbour, a tailor, is fascinated by him. A series of female murders shakes the town. Is Labbé involved?
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsKanu BannerjeeKaruna BannerjeeSubir BanerjeeImpoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.Satyajit Ray and Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
1. Pather Panchali (1955)
2. Aparajito (1956)
3. Apu Sansar (1959)
4. Ashani Sanket (1973) - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneTatsuya NakadaiKeiju KobayashiA crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.
- DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsMasayuki MoriMachiko KyôKinuyo TanakaA tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.Kenji Mizoguchi and Matsutarô Kawaguchi
1. The Passion of a Woman Teacher (1926)
2. Gion matsuri (1933)
3. The Pass of Love and Hate (1934)
4. The Virgin from Oyuki (1935)
5. Ojô Okichi (1935)
6. The Straits of Love and Hate (1937)
7. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)
8. Danjuro sandai (1944)
9. Miyamoto Musashi (1944)
10. The Famous Sword (1945)
11. Ugetsu (1953)
12. A Geisha (1953)
13. The Crucified Lovers (1954)
14. Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955)
15. The Taira Clan (1955) - DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSharmila TagoreKaberi BoseSimi GarewalA group of Calcutta city slickers, including the well-off Asim (Soumitra Chatterjee), the meek Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee) and the brutish Hari (Samit Bhanja), head out for a weekend in the wilderness.
- DirectorZoltán FábriStarsZoltán LatinovitsImre SinkovitsMárta FónayThe Tót family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the armed forces. When his weary major is ordered to take a vacation, the son talks him into a visit to his family home. Comedy endues when the Tót's go overboard trying to make things pleasant for the visiting major in hopes of an easier life for their son the soldier.
- DirectorEdvin LaineStarsKosti KlemeläHeikki SavolainenReino TolvanenThe tale of a platoon of soldiers during the Continuation War. Based on Väinö Linna's book of the same name.Edvin Laine and Väinö Linna
1. The Unknown Soldier (1955)
2. Black Love (1957)
3. Sven Tuuva the Hero (1958)
4. Here, Beneath the North Star (1968)
5. Akseli and Elina (1970)
6. Pohjantähti (1973)
7. Doverie (1976) - DirectorRobert BressonStarsNadine NortierJean-Claude GuilbertMarie CardinalA young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsSophia LorenJean-Paul BelmondoRaf ValloneIn WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsVáclav NeckárJosef SomrVlastimil BrodskýAn apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.Jirí Menzel and Bohumil Hrabal
1. Pearls of the Deep (1965)
2. Closely Watched Trains (1966)
3. Larks on a String (1969)
4. Cutting it Short (1981)
5. The Snowdrop Festivities (1984)
6. I Served the King of England (2006) - DirectorJacques RivetteStarsMichel PiccoliJane BirkinEmmanuelle BéartThe former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.Jacques Rivette and Honoré de Balzac
1. Out 1 (1971)
2. The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991)
3. Divertimento (1992)
4. Don't Touch the Axe (2007) - DirectorYves RobertStarsPhilippe CaubèreNathalie RousselDidier PainAt the end of the nineteenth century, little Marcel lives with his parents in the Provence countryside. During his holiday, Marcel meets Lili, a local boy who knows all the secrets of the hills, and the two become fast friends.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsJean GabinJulien CaretteSimone SimonIn this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.
- DirectorJean DelannoyStarsJean GabinAnnie GirardotOlivier HussenotA serial killer is targeting women in the seedy district of Le Marais.Jean Delannoy and Georges Simenon
1. Maigret Lays a Trap (1958)
2. Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959)
3. The Baron of the Locks (1960) - DirectorRobert BressonStarsDominique SandaGuy FranginJeanne LobreA young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to his. Disgusted with his attempts to dominate her, she considered murdering him, but found herself unable to do it.
- DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyMikhail NazvanovElza RadzinaAfter the death of the King of Denmark - Hamlet's father - his brother Claudius ascends the throne, who takes his widow Gertrude as his wife. Hamlet meets the ghost of his father and learns that he was killed by Claudius.