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Poll: Lesser-Known Author and Auteur Collaborations

A poll by Maxence_G.
This list enumerates successful but often forgotten sets of adaptions between an auteur and an author.

Which of these is your favorite? If you haven't seen any, you can vote for the one you are the most eager to discover.

Rules: 1. Fewer than 100 000 cumulative votes 2. Both the author and the auteur must be deceased

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    Hamlet (1948)

    Laurence Olivier and William Shakespeare

    1. Henry V (1944) 2. Hamlet (1948) 3. Richard III (1955)

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    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)

    Masaki Kobayashi and Jumpei Gomikawa

    1. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) 2. The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959) 3. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)

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    War and Peace (1965)

    Sergey Bondarchuk and Lev Tolstoy

    1. War and Peace (1965) 2. War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1965) 3. War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova (1966) 4. War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 (1967) 5. War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov (1967)

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    Great Expectations (1946)

    David Lean and Charles Dickens

    1. Great Expectations (1946) 2. Oliver Twist (1948)

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    Jules and Jim (1962)

    François Truffaut and Henri-Pierre Roché

    1. Jules and Jim (1962) 2. Two English Girls (1971)

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    Harakiri (1962)

    Masaki Kobayashi and Yasuhiko Takiguchi

    1. Harakiri (1962) 2. Samurai Rebellion (1967)

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    La Ronde (1950)

    Max Ophüls and Arthur Schnitzler:

    1. Liebelei (1933) 2. La Ronde (1950)

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    Late Autumn (1960)

    Yasujirô Ozu and Ton Satomi:

    1. Equinox Flower (1958) 2. Late Autumn (1960)

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    Macbeth (1948)

    Orson Welles and William Shakespeare

    1. Macbeth (1948) 2. Othello (1951) 3. Chimes at Midnight (1965)

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    The Hatter's Ghost (1982)

    Claude Chabrol and Georges Simenon

    1. The Hatter's Ghost (1982) 2. Betty (1992)

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    Pather Panchali (1955)

    Satyajit Ray and Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

    1. Pather Panchali (1955) 2. Aparajito (1956) 3. Apu Sansar (1959) 4. Ashani Sanket (1973)

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    Sanjuro (1962)

    Akira Kurosawa and Shûgorô Yamamoto

    1. Sanjuro (1962) 2. Red Beard (1965) 3. Dodes'ka-den (1970)

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    Ugetsu (1953)

    Kenji Mizoguchi and Matsutarô Kawaguchi

    1. The Passion of a Woman Teacher (1926) 2. Gion matsuri (1933) 3. The Pass of Love and Hate (1934) 4. The Virgin from Oyuki (1935) 5. Ojô Okichi (1935) 6. The Straits of Love and Hate (1937) 7. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939) 8. Danjuro sandai (1944) 9. Miyamoto Musashi (1944) 10. The Famous Sword (1945) 11. Ugetsu (1953) 12. A Geisha (1953) 13. The Crucified Lovers (1954) 14. Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955) 15. The Taira Clan (1955)

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    Aranyer Din Ratri (1970)

    Satyajit Ray and Sunit Gangopadhyay

    1. Aranyer Din Ratri (1970) 2. Pratidwandi (1970)

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    Isten hozta örnagy úr (1969)

    Zoltán Fábri and István Örkény

    1. The Toth Family (1969) 2. Requiem (1982)

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    The Unknown Soldier (1955)

    Edvin Laine and Väinö Linna

    1. The Unknown Soldier (1955) 2. Black Love (1957) 3. Sven Tuuva the Hero (1958) 4. Here, Beneath the North Star (1968) 5. Akseli and Elina (1970) 6. Pohjantähti (1973) 7. Doverie (1976)

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    Mouchette (1967)

    Robert Bresson and George Bernanos

    1. Diary of a Country Priest (1951) 2. Mouchette (1967)

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    Two Women (1960)

    Vittorio de Sica and Alberto Moravia

    1. Two Women (1960) 2. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)

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    Closely Watched Trains (1966)

    Jirí Menzel and Bohumil Hrabal

    1. Pearls of the Deep (1965) 2. Closely Watched Trains (1966) 3. Larks on a String (1969) 4. Cutting it Short (1981) 5. The Snowdrop Festivities (1984) 6. I Served the King of England (2006)

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    La Belle Noiseuse (1991)

    Jacques Rivette and Honoré de Balzac

    1. Out 1 (1971) 2. The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991) 3. Divertimento (1992) 4. Don't Touch the Axe (2007)

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    My Father's Glory (1990)

    Yves Robert and Marcel Pagnol

    1. My Father's Glory (1990) 2. My Mother's Castle (1990)

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    La Bête Humaine (1938)

    Jean Renoir and Émile Zola

    1. Nana (1926) 2. La Bête Humaine (1938)

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    Inspector Maigret (1958)

    Jean Delannoy and Georges Simenon

    1. Maigret Lays a Trap (1958) 2. Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959) 3. The Baron of the Locks (1960)

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    A Gentle Woman (1969)

    Robert Bresson and Fyodor Dostoevsky

    1. A Gentle Woman (1969) 2. Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)

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    Hamlet (1964)

    Grigoriy Kozintsev, Boris Pasternak and William Shakespeare

    1. Hamlet (1964) 2. King Lear (1970)


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