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In his maiden speech, in July, he caused a scandal by expressing his concerns about the American cultural threat antibes Claude Autant-Lara , provoking a walkout by the majority of the deputies. In an interview granted to the monthly magazine Globe in September antibes 1989, he engaged in what Minister of Justice Pierre Arpaillange antibes referred to as racial insults, racial slandering and incitements to racial hatred . In the 1960s, he turned his back on the New Wave movement, and from antibes Laurent Gras then on he had no popular successes. On 18 June 1989, he came to public notice again, controversially, when he was elected to antibes the European Parliament as a member of the National Front and the oldest member of the assembly.

Autant-Lara also acted in the film. As a director, he frequently created provocative movies, saying if a film does not have venom, it is worthless . Claude Autant-Lara (5 August 1901, antibes Luzarches, Val-d’Oise - 5 February 2000, Antibes, Alpes-Maritimes), was a French film director and later Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Autant-Lara was educated in France and at London s Mill Hill School during his mother s exile as a pacifist.

He also described Nazi gas chambers as a antibes string of lies . Moreover, the members of the Academy of the Fine Arts, of which he was a vice-president for life, voted to prohibit him from taking his seat thenceforth. His memoir, The Rage in the Heart, appeared in 1984. In 1973 he adapted Stendhal s Lucien Leuwen for television. In antibes addition, he was director of at least five other films produced between 1923 and 1936. This article is based on the equivalent French-language wikipedia article (retrieved November 30, 2005). .

Early in his career, he worked as an art director and costume designer, his best known work in this vein was possibly for Nana (1926), a silent film directed by Jean Renoir. The resulting scandal led to his resignation as European deputy.