About

Known credits:
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Birthday:
1922-05-24
Place of birth:
Ivry-sur-Seine, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
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Pierre Daix

Overview

Pierre Georges Daix (24 May 1922 – 2 November 2014) was a French journalist, writer and art historian. He was a friend and biographer of Pablo Picasso.

As a young man, Daix was an ardent Stalinist. He joined the French Communist Party at the age of 17 in 1939 when the Communist Party was banned for supporting the German-Soviet pact. In July 1940, he created a student club, the Centre laïque des auberges de la jeunesse (Claj), which served as a legal screen for the clandestine Union of Communist Students.

When David Rousset (1912-1997) spoke out about Stalin's vast system of prison camps, Daix attacked him as a liar, denying that the GULAG system existed in the Soviet Union, in a 16 page article in Les Lettres Françaises, entitled "Pourquoi M. David Rousset a-t-il inventé les camps soviétiques?". Rousset brought libel charges against Daix and there was a public trial in France, which Rousset, who had told the truth about the camps, won in 1950. As a French communist, Daix continued his uncritical support for the Soviet Union for many years, though late in life he admitted he had been wrong.

From 1980 to 1985, he was a journalist for Le Quotidien de Paris.

Source: Article "Pierre Daix" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known for

Acting

2009 Sommer '39 Actor Self 59
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2001 Picassos Friseur Actor Self / Biographer N/A
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2000 Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell Actor Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner 59
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Directing

1999 13 Days in the Life of Pablo Picasso Directing Director N/A
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