Henri-Georges Clouzot

Henri-Georges Clouzot , born the November 20th 1907 with Niort and deceased the January 12th 1977 with Paris is a realizer, scenario writer, dialogist and Producteur of cinema French.

Biography

Henri-Georges Clouzot was born with Niort, the November 20th 1907. After traditional studies, it moves initially towards journalism. It starts by adapting scenarios, in particular the Unknown ones in the house of Henri Decoin with Raimu and the last of the six of Georges Lacombe with Pierre Fresnay and Suzy Delair, It begins in the setting in scene with the assassin lives with the 21 (1942), and reforms the couple Pierre Fresnay - Suzy Delair, then carries out in full German occupation a film on a shipper of anonymous letters the Corbel (1943), which gives place to polemical sharp in France which suffers then of the denouncement. A communist campaign is launched against Clouzot (comparing its film with Mein Kampf and showing it to offer an negative image of France) and at the same time its film is condemned by the conservatives and the catholic Power station for immorality tandis even as Goebbels makes it diffuse abroad (but not in Germany, where he was considered to be too black). From the Release, contrary to the majority of the other employees of the Continental-Films (a company created by Goebbels), Clouzot escapes the prison but is seen struck of a professional suspension with life. Famous resistant will write then with a detractor of Clouzot: " My expensive, you know well that Clouzot was not more collaborationist who you you were not résistant". Thanks to the intervention of personalities (like Pierre Bost, Jacques Becker, or Henri Jeanson who signs a corrosive text " Coconuts against corbeau" …), Clouzot returns to the realization and gains several rewards with the festivals of Venice and Cannes with Quai of the Goldsmiths in 1947, Miquette and its mother in 1949, both with Louis Jouvet, Manon (1949), the Wages of the fear , with Yves Montand and Charles Vanel in 1952, films having profited all from a broad audience.

Scenario writer with the traditional but incisive style, its first three films betray the influence of the cinema expressionnist, and especially Fritz Lang. It is animated by a kind of perfectionism which sometimes leads it to tyrannize its actors. Moralist throwing an often pessimistic glance on the company, he is the realizer of several other famous films of which Diabolic the (1954), police film high in suspense putting in scene an ambivalent and ambiguous couple interpreted by Simone Signoret and Véra Clouzot, suspected of the murder of the husband of the latter (Paul Meurisse) by an inspector with logic relentless (Charles Vanel); the Mystery Picasso (1956), large a Documentary on the method of the painter and the birth of some of its tables; and the Truth (1960), where Brigitte Bardot finds her best role dramatic.

Henri-Georges Clouzot dies the January 12th 1977 leaving behind him one of the most succeeded catalogs of films and most interesting of the French cinema.

In 1994, with the Hell , Claude Chabrol took again the scenario of a film that Clouzot had not been able to complete thirty years more early.

Catalog of films (realizer)

  • 1931 : the Terror of Batignolles
  • 1933: Very for the love
  • 1933: Whim of princess
  • 1942: the assassin lives with the 21
  • 1943: the Corbel
  • 1947: Quay of the Goldsmiths (also dialogist)
  • 1949: Manon
  • 1949 : the Return to the life (segment the Return of Jean )
  • 1950: the Voyage in Brazil (unfinished)
  • 1950: Miquette and his/her mother
  • 1953: Wages of the fear (also dialogist and producer)
  • 1955: Diabolic the (also producing)
  • 1956: the Mystery Picasso (also producing)
  • 1957: the Spies (also producing)
  • 1960: the Truth
  • 1964: the Hell , unfinished
  • 1967: Large leaders
  • 1968: Captive the

Catalog of films (scenario writer)

Others

  • It founds its production company Vera Films, by giving him the first name of his wife Véra Clouzot, actress of Brazilian origin, which appears with the credits of several of its films.

See too

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