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name: "Jean Cayrol"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jean-cayrol"
roles: ["Screenwriter"]
born: "6 June 1911"
died: "10 February 2005"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T04:38:47.367113+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Jean Cayrol

Screenwriter. Born 6 June 1911 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Died 10 February 2005.

## Details

- **Work:** Screenwriter
- **Born:** 6 June 1911, Bordeaux, Gironde, France
- **Died:** 10 February 2005
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q699397, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0147321/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11984

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Night and Fog*](https://film.one/film/night-and-fog.md) (91)

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## Biography

Jean Cayrol (1911–2005) was a French poet, novelist and screenwriter. Born in Bordeaux, he joined the French Resistance during the Second World War and was deported to the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in 1943, surviving until liberation in 1945.

He wrote the commentary for Alain Resnais’s documentary *Night and Fog* (1956), drawing on his poetry collection *Poèmes de la nuit et du brouillard*. Cayrol also wrote the screenplay and dialogue for Resnais’s *Muriel, or the Time of Return* (1963). He worked as a literary editor at Éditions du Seuil and contributed to the journal *Tel Quel*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, tcm.com, britannica.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Night and Fog* (1956), Fi1m 91, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/night-and-fog.md)

## Also known for

- *Muriel, or the Time of Return* (1963), Scenario Writer, Dialogue

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