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The director Julien Duvivier belongs to the big five French directors
of the 20s and 30s beside Jacques Feyder, Marcel Carné, Rene Clair
and Jean Renoir.
He began his career as an actor at the theater but a voice blockade
as a result of stage fright brought him to look for another possibility
to work artistically. So he joined the film business in 1918, first as
an assistant of other directors.
Already one year later he realised his first movie as a director with
"Haceldama ou Le pris du sang" (19).
He cemented his position as a director and screen writer in the next
years and he realised silent movies like "La reincarnation de Serge Renaudier"
(20), "Der unheimliche Gast" (22), "Coeurs faruches" (24), "L'abbé
Constantin" (25), "Le mystère de la tour Eiffel" (27), "Le tourbillon
de Paris" (28) and "Maman Colibri" (29).
With the sound film of the 30s Julien Duvivier became one of the most
important French directors and he shot his greatest successes in the 30s
and 40s.
To his popular works of those years belong "David Golder" (31), "Le
petit roi" (33), "La bandera" (35), "Le golem" (36), "La belle équipe"
(36), "Pépé le Moko" (37), "Un carnet de bal" (37) and "Marie
Antoinette" (38).
The movie "Pépé le Moko" (37) made Jean Gabin a movie
star and Julien Duvivier got an invitation to the USA where he realised
the movie "The Great Waltz" (38) for MGM.
After his return to France he shot the movies "La fin du jour" (39)
and "La charrette fant^me" (39) before he went back to the USA with the
outbreak of World War II.
There he was able to direct other movies like "Tales of Manhattan"
(42), "Flesh and Fantasy" (43) and "The Impostor" (44).
After the war he returned to France again and realised more movies,
among them popular productions like "Anna Karenina" (48) - a British movie,
"Sous le ciel de Paris" (51), "Don Camillo" (52), "Le retour de Don Camillo"
(53), "Pot-Bouille" (57) and "Marie-Octobre" (59).
His last movies came in the 60s into being with "Das kunstseidene Mädchen"
(60), "La chambre ardente" (62), "Le diable et les dix commandements" (62)
and "Diaboliquement vôtre" (67).
Just after the completion of his last movie - which was about a man
who suffered from amnesia after a car accident - Julien Duvivier became
a victor of an automobile accident when his car collided with another car.
The driver of the other car was the French minister for Scientic Research,
Maurcie Schumann.
To Julien Duviviers preferred actors belonged Jean Gabin and Harry Baur.
Other movies from Julien Duvivier (Director):
Le logis de l'horreur (21) L'ouragan sur la montagne
(22) L'agonie des aigles (22) Les Roquevillard (22) Le reflet de Claude
Mercoeur (23) L'oeuvre immortelle (24) La machine à refaire la vie
(24) Credo ou la tragédie de Lourdes (24) Poil de carotte (25) L'homme
à l'Hispano (27) L'agonie de Jérusalem (27) La divine croisière
(29) La vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin (30) Au bonheur
des dames (30) Les cinq gentlemen maudits (31) La Vénus du collège
(32) Allo Berlin? Ici Paris! (32) Die fünf verfluchten Gentlemen (32)
Poil de carotte (32) La machine à refaire la vie (33) La tête
d'un homme (33) Le paquebot Tenacity (34) Maria Chapdelaine (34) Golgotha
(35) L'homme du jour (37) Lydia (41) Untel père et fils (43) Panique
(46) Au royaume des cieux (49) Black Jack (50) La fête à
Henriette (52) ffaire Maurizius (54) Marianne de ma jeunesse (55) Voici
le temps des assassins... (56) L'homme à l'imperméable (57)
La femme et le pantin (59) Boulevard (60) Chair de poule (63)
Writer:
Haceldama ou Le prix du sang (19) Crépuscule d'épouvante
(21) L'ouragan sur la montagne (22) Les Roquevillard (22) Le reflet de
Claude Mercoeur (23) Coeurs farouches (24) L'oeuvre immortelle (24) Credo
ou la tragédie de Lourdes (24) L'abbé Constantin (25) Poil
de carotte (25) L'agonie de Jérusalem (27) Le mariage de Mademoiselle
Beulemans (27) Le tourbillon de Paris (28) La divine croisière (29)
Maman Colibri (29) La vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin (30)
David Golder (31) Les cinq gentlemen maudits (31) Allo Berlin? Ici Paris!
(32) Die fünf verfluchten Gentlemen (32) Poil de carotte (32) La tête
d'un homme (33) Le petit roi (33) Le paquebot Tenacity (34) Maria Chapdelaine
(34) Golgotha (35) La bandera (35) Le golem (36) La belle équipe
(36) L'homme du jour (37) Pépé le Moko (37) Un carnet de
bal (37) La fin du jour (39) La charrette fantôme (39) Lydia (41)
Untel père et fils (43) Reise in die Vergangenheit (43) The Impostor
(44) Amours, délices et orgues (46) Panique (46) Anna Karenina (48)
Au royaume des cieux (49) Black Jack (50) Sous le ciel de Paris (51) Don
Camillo (52) La fête à Henriette (52) Le retour de Don Camillo
(53) L'affaire Maurizius (54) Marianne de ma jeunesse (55) Voici le temps
des assassins... (56) L'homme à l'imperméable (57) Pot-Bouille
(57) La femme et le pantin (59) Marie-Octobre (59) Das kunstseidene Mädchen
(60) Boulevard (60) La chambre ardente (62) Le diable et les dix commandements
(62) Marie Octobre (63) Chair de poule (63) Paris – When It Sizzles: La
fête à Henriette (64) Marie Octobre (64) Diaboliquement vôtre
(67) Serie "Au théâtre ce soir: Marie-Octobre" (74)
Producer:
L'homme du jour (37) Flesh and Fantasy (43) The Impostor
(44) Destiny (44) Black Jack (50) La chambre ardente (62)
Director Assistant:
Les frère corses (17) Le coupable (17) Les travailleurs
de la mer (18) Tih Minh (18) La terre (21)
Cinematographer:
Haceldama ou Le prix du sang (19)
Editor:
Haceldama ou Le prix du sang (19) |
