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Susan Sontag(1933-2004)

  • Writer
  • Director
  • Actress
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Susan Sontag
Born in New York City, raised in Arizona and California, educated at the University of Chicago, Harvard, Oxford and the Sorbonne, Susan Sontag constitutes a veritable challenge for any biographer. A novelist, philosopher, essayist, movie director and playwright, over the past thirty years she has been a controversial figure, too snobby for many of her critics, but always ready for a veritably "down to earth" engagement wherever and whenever human free expression is at stake (Vietnam, communist China, Bosnia).

Among her essays, which are by far her most complete aesthetic achievement, many are devoted to Film, either to single movies (like Bergman's "Persona", Godard's "Vivre sa vie", Syberberg's "Hitler, a Film from Germany", but also Chaplin's "The Dictator" and Kubrick's "Doctor Strangelove"), directors (Robert Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Leni Riefenstahl), or genders (Science Fiction). Her own films are deeply inspired by modernist style. The first two, Duo pour cannibales (1969) and Bröder Carl (1971), both shot and produced in Sweden, bear clear influences of Bergman's reflections about the impossibility of human communication. Giro turistico senza guida (1984) is an elegiac documentary of a mental tour of melancholia, while "Promised Lands" is a shocking documentary about Israel/Palestine that managed to outrage both the pro-Israelis and the pro-Palestinians at the time of its release in the mid 1970's. Since she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1975 (which she eventually overcame during several years of treatment), she has been involved in thinking and writing about the role of disease (TB, cancer, AIDS) in contemporary Western society.
BornJanuary 16, 1933
DiedDecember 28, 2004(71)
BornJanuary 16, 1933
DiedDecember 28, 2004(71)
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Known for

Zelig (1983)
Zelig
7.6
  • Susan Sontag - Contemporary Interviews
  • 1983
Duo pour cannibales (1969)
Duo pour cannibales
6.5
  • Writer
  • 1969
Keve Hjelm, Gunnel Lindblom, Geneviève Page, and Laurent Terzieff in Bröder Carl (1971)
Bröder Carl
5.7
  • Writer
  • 1971
Per un viaggio in Italia (1983)
Per un viaggio in Italia
7.6
TV Mini Series
  • Writer

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Writer



  • Cut (2021)
    Cut
    • collaborating writer
    • 2021
  • Per un viaggio in Italia (1983)
    Per un viaggio in Italia
    7.6
    TV Mini Series
    • writer
    • 1984
  • John Berger and Susan Sontag in Voices (1982)
    Voices
    TV Series
    • narrative script
    • 1983
  • Promised Lands (1974)
    Promised Lands
    6.3
    • Writer
    • 1974
  • Keve Hjelm, Gunnel Lindblom, Geneviève Page, and Laurent Terzieff in Bröder Carl (1971)
    Bröder Carl
    5.7
    • Writer
    • 1971
  • Duo pour cannibales (1969)
    Duo pour cannibales
    6.5
    • writer
    • 1969

Director



  • Per un viaggio in Italia (1983)
    Per un viaggio in Italia
    7.6
    TV Mini Series
    • Director
    • 1984
  • Promised Lands (1974)
    Promised Lands
    6.3
    • Director
    • 1974
  • Keve Hjelm, Gunnel Lindblom, Geneviève Page, and Laurent Terzieff in Bröder Carl (1971)
    Bröder Carl
    5.7
    • Director
    • 1971
  • Duo pour cannibales (1969)
    Duo pour cannibales
    6.5
    • Director
    • 1969

Actress



  • Zelig (1983)
    Zelig
    7.6
    • Susan Sontag - Contemporary Interviews
    • 1983

Personal details

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  • Official site
    • Official Site
  • Height
    • 1.75 m
  • Born
    • January 16, 1933
    • New York City, New York, USA
  • Died
    • December 28, 2004
    • New York City, New York, USA(leukemia)
  • Spouse
    • Philip RieffJanuary 3, 1951 - 1959 (divorced, 1 child)
  • Other works
    Book: "Against Interpretation"
  • Publicity listings
    • 4 Print Biographies
    • 1 Portrayal
    • 3 Interviews
    • 28 Articles

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    She became an honorary citizen of Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia.
  • Quotes
    Cinema is the most alive, the most exciting, the most important of all art forms

FAQ

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  • When did Susan Sontag die?
    December 28, 2004
  • How did Susan Sontag die?
    Leukemia
  • How old was Susan Sontag when she died?
    71 years old
  • Where did Susan Sontag die?
    New York City, New York, USA
  • When was Susan Sontag born?
    January 16, 1933

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