Christian-Jaque

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Christian-Jaque (born August 4, 1904 in Paris , † July 8, 1994 in Boulogne-Billancourt ; actually Christian-Albert-François Maudet ) was a French director .

life and work

Christian-Jaque first studied architecture in Paris before designing film sets for an American film company (First National). In between he was also a film journalist for two years before he worked again as a film architect or set designer from 1927 to 1931 (e.g. for Julien Duvivier's silent film Irene Rysbergue's great love ). In 1932 he made his first feature film, L'Bidon d'Or . For Die Perlen der Krone from 1937, written and shot in collaboration with Sacha Guitry , he and Guitry received the prize for the best screenplay at the Venice Film Festival . During the occupation he also made films (for the German company Continental), but also worked for the French underground army FFI at the same time .

The elaborate costume films that he made from the 1950s onwards earned him the nickname of "French Cecil B. DeMille ". For fanfan, the hussar with Gérard Philipe , he received the Silver Bear in Berlin in 1952 and the director's award at the Cannes Film Festival . For TKX not responding ( Si tous les gars du monde ) was it in 1956 in Carlsbad the crystal globe of the International Film Festival Karlovy Vary awarded. Christian-Jaque was from 1954 to 1959 - after the divorce from the actress Renée Faure (1919-2005), whom he married in 1947 and with whom he had a daughter - in third marriage with the French actress Martine Carol , which he also in Has made films such as Lucrezia Borgia (1952), Madame Dubarry (1954), Nana (1954, after Émile Zola ), Natalie (1957) and Adorables créatures (1952, with Danielle Darrieux ).

After his divorce in 1959, he and Babette Goes to War helped launch Brigitte Bardot's career , which was to replace Martine Carole as a French film idol. In total, he was married at least five times, most recently from 1992 to his assistant director Denise Morlot. Other wives were the actresses Christiane Delyne (1902-1966) and Simone Renant (1940-1944). From the 1970s he mainly worked for television, such as B. in the series L'Homme de Suez with Guy Marchand . He died of a heart attack at the age of 89 and is buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery.

Filmography (selection)

cinemamovies

Television productions

literature

  • Hans-Ulrich Seifert: Berlioz 1942. La Symphonie fantastique by Christian-Jaque . In: Transgressions - exceeding: mélanges en l'honneur de Hermann Hofer. Edited by Wanda Klee [u. a.], Marburg: Tectum-Verlag, 2011, pp. 272-314.

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personal data
SURNAME Christian-Jaque
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maudet, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French director
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1994
Place of death Boulogne-Billancourt , France