#Suzanne Grumberg

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Nos éclaireuses, reproduction du tableau original réalisée par Amélie Beaury-Saurel, carte postale, c. 1914.

 « Reproduction couleur du tableau réalisée par Amélie Beaury-Saurel, intitulé Nos éclaireuses, exposé au Salon de Paris en 1914, représentant sept pionnières : (de droite à gauche) la poétesse Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, l'aviatrice Hélène Dutrieu, l'avocate Suzanne Grumberg et la peintre Mme Henri Rochefort, née Marguerite Vervoort. Une cochère et une cycliste y sont aussi représentées. »

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Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve in The Last Métro (François Truffaut, 1980)

Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Andréa Ferréol, Paulette Dubost, Jean-Louis Richard, Maurice Risch, Sabine Haudepin, Heinz Bennent. Screenplay: François Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman, Jean-Claude Grumberg. Cinematography: Néstor Almendros. Production design: Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko. Film editing: Martine Barraqué. Music: Georges Delerue. François Truffaut said in interviews that The Last Métro is a kind of companion film to Day for Night (1973), his behind-the-camera account of making a movie. Truffaut, who was born in 1932, was only a boy during the war but he recalls the theater -- both the movie theater and the legitimate stage -- as a kind of refuge from hardship, the hunger and cold brought about by wartime rationing. People gathered in theaters for communal warmth. The story is principally about an actress, Marion Steiner (Catherine Deneuve), who is trying to keep the theater that was run before the war by her husband, Lucas (Heinz Bennent), open. Lucas, who is Jewish, is rumored to have fled to America, but in fact he is hiding in the cellar of the theater while Marion, with the help of the rest of the regular company, stages a play. The director, Jean-Loup Cottins (Jean Poiret), is working from the notes Lucas made on the play before his disappearance. Cottins has his own dangerous secret: He's gay, and hence subject to persecution by the occupying Nazis. A new leading man, Bernard Granger (Gérard Depardieu), joins the company, and inevitably a tension develops between him and Marion. Meanwhile, Lucas has figured out ways to listen in on rehearsals and make suggestions to Marion that she passes along to Cottins, who is unaware of Lucas's hiding place. Marion also has the difficulty of dealing with the authorities, who could close the theater at any moment, especially when the influential critic Daxiat (Jean-Louis Richard), a collaborator with the Nazis, takes an interest in her and the play. What takes place on stage, namely the sexual tension between the characters played by Marion and Bernard, often mirrors what's happening backstage. The Last Métro is a well-crafted movie -- Truffaut wrote the screenplay with Suzanne Schiffman -- that was France's entry for the best foreign-film Oscar and won a raft of the French César Awards, including one for cinematographer Nestor Almendros.