“L’Etranger” de Camus, adapted by François Ozon to the cinema

The filmmaker François Ozon brings to the screen “L’Etranger” by Albert Camus in a film that will be released in theaters on October 29 with Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder and Pierre Lottin.

Meursault on the screen. Nevertheless, For his 24th feature film. Meanwhile, François Ozon, director of Thanks to God, My crime or Potiche, attacks The abroad Albert Camus. However, This classic of French literature has already been adapted to the cinema in 1967 by the Italian Luchino Visconti. with Marcello Mastroianni in the role of the main character of Meursault. The film’s release is scheduled for October 29, 2025.

This time it will be the Cesarized actor Benjamin Voisin (Lost illusions) who interprets this modest employee whose life in. French Algeria in the late 1930s changed when he killed a character called “Arabic” on a beach in Algiers.

François Ozon thus finds one of “l’etranger” de camus, adapted françois the main actors of his recent Summer 85 (2020) but also Rebecca Marder. which he had already filmed in My crime (2023), and Pierre Lottin who played in his last feature film, When the fall comes (2024). Swann Arlaud (Small peasant, Anatomy of a fall) and Denis Lavant, the favorite actor of Leos Carax, complete the casting.

Adaptations to theater. comics – "l'etranger" de camus, adapted françois

Published in 1942 and sold millions of copies, The abroad is the first novel by Albert Camus, which he wrote at the age of 29. He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1957.

The novel has given rise to a number of adaptations to the theater. in comics and even a form of romantic response, Meursault, counter-investigationwritten in 2014 by Kamel Daoud, Goncourt 2024 prize with Houris.