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Robert Darène

Died in 2016

Robert Darène was born on 10 January 1914 in Marseille. He acted in a dozen films between 1934 and 1959, then moved behind the camera and directed nine films from 1951 to 1963; he also wrote screenplays. One of his films recounts the beginnings of the Emmaüs movement, founded by Abbé Pierre in the late 1940s, with the former prisoners, vagrants and homeless families of its early days. He died on 15 January 2016 at his home in the Yvelines, aged one hundred and two.

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