Jean Genet

Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later took to writing. His major works include the novels The Thief's Journal and Our Lady of the Flowers, and the plays The Balcony, The Maids and The Screens.

Cast

Mayday

Self

Little Girl Blue

Self (archive footage)

Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy

Self

Song of Love

Prisoner in Duo Fantasy (uncredited)

André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer

Self - Writer (archive footage)

Disorder

Self

Jean Genet: Entretien avec Bertrand Poirot-Delpech

Self

Chicago

Self

Shiraz 70

Unknown

Jean Genet, le contre exemplaire

Self

Crew

Mademoiselle

Story

Serva e Padrona

Novel

Song of Love

Director, Writer, Editor, Production Design

Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète

Writer

Deathwatch

Writer

The Balcony

Theatre Play

The Maids

Theatre Play

Genet à Chatila

Writer

Un boxeur endormi

Poem, Original Story

Black Mirror

Screenplay, Story

Le sphinx

Other

Condemned and Possessed

Poem

Poor Pretty Eddie

Novel

Querelle

Novel

Flowers and Beasts

Novel

Ritual

Original Story

Les Bonnes

Writer