José Giovanni

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José Giovanni


Born
in Paris, France
June 22, 1923

Died
April 24, 2004

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José Giovanni was the pseudonym of Joseph Damiani, a French murderer, writer and film-maker.

Giovanni was a former collaborationist and criminal who at one time was sentenced to death. He often drew his inspiration from personal experience or from real gangsters, such as Abel Danos in his 1960 film "Classe tous risques," overlooking that they had been members of the French Gestapo. In his films as well as his novels, while praising masculine friendships and advocating the confrontation of the individual against the world, he often championed the underworld but was always careful to hide his own criminal past and his links with the Nazi occupiers of France during World War II.
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Average rating: 3.66 · 139 ratings · 27 reviews · 34 distinct worksSimilar authors
Le trou

4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1957 — 3 editions
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Le deuxième souffle

4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1958 — 3 editions
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The Great Husky Race

3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions
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A todo riesgo

3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1958 — 7 editions
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Mon ami le traître

3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions
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Śmierć w górach

2.63 avg rating — 8 ratings8 editions
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Les Aventuriers

3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1960 — 9 editions
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El Excomulgado

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2.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1958 — 13 editions
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Le Gitan

2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1959 — 7 editions
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Le prince sans étoile

3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions
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