Camus's The Stranger, adapted for the cinema by François Ozon, will be released on October 29
After the Italian Luchino Visconti in 1967, the French director now tackles the adaptation of the first work of the Nobel Prize winner for literature, published in 1942 and sold in millions of copies.
For the second time, The Stranger is becoming a film. Filmmaker François Ozon is bringing Albert Camus' masterpiece to the screen in a film that will be released in theaters on October 29, starring Benjamin Voisin , Rebecca Marder , and Pierre Lottin , Gaumont announced Tuesday.
For his 24th feature film, the director of Grâce à Dieu , Mon Crime ou Potiche takes on a classic of French literature already adapted for the cinema in 1967 by the Italian Luchino Visconti, with Marcello Mastroianni in the role of the main character of Meursault.
Skip the adThis time, it will be César-winning actor Benjamin Voisin ( Lost Illusions ) who plays this modest employee whose life in French Algeria in the late 1930s is turned upside down when he shoots a character called The Arab on a beach in Algiers. François Ozon thus reunites with one of the main actors from his recent Summer of 85 (2020) but also Rebecca Marder, whom he had already filmed in My Crime (2023), and Pierre Lottin who played in his last feature film, When Autumn Comes (2024).
Swann Arlaud ( Little Peasant , Anatomy of a Fall ) and Denis Lavant , Leos Carax's favorite actor, complete the cast. Published in 1942 and sold in millions of copies, The Stranger is the first novel by Albert Camus , which he wrote at the age of 29. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. The novel has given rise to numerous adaptations for the stage or into comics and even to a form of novelistic response, Meursault, counter-investigation , written in 2014 by Kamel Daoud, winner of the Prix Goncourt 2024 with Houris .
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