Jean-Pierre Mocky
Jean-Pierre Mocky (actually: Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski; born July 6, 1933 in Nice ; † August 8, 2019 in Paris ) was a French film director and actor .
life and career
Mocky began his film career as an actor (including 1942 in The Night with the Devil and 1949 in Orpheus ), later he directed. He staged black humor farces and was considered a representative of anarchic film. When he wasn't acting himself, his preferred lead actor was Michel Serrault (he was in ten of Mocky's films). After the anarchic 1970s, since the end of the 1980s, other greats of French film could be seen in works by Jean-Pierre Mocky, including Jeanne Moreau ( The Miracle of Papu ) , Stéphane Audran (A Turbulent Weekend) , Catherine Deneuve ( Agent Trouble - Accidental murder ) , Claude Jade ( Bonsoir ) , Jane Birkin (Noir comme le souvenir) and Michael Lonsdale (Le Furet) . At the beginning it was about satires on life and after 1968 about the reaction of terrorists to the bourgeois world (such as in A City Trembles Before Solo ), later it was farces. Rogues make a fraudulent pilgrimage to Lourdes in The Miracle of Papu and want to cheat an insurance company through miraculous healing. The homeless Alex (Serrault) stays with the lesbian Caroline (Jade) in Bonsoir and saves her inheritance from her homophobic relatives. His work as an actor comprised more than 85 film and television productions, as a director he appeared almost 80 times.
Filmography (selection)
D = actor, B = script, R = director, S = editor, P = production
- 1946: The Eternal Husband (L'homme au chapeau rond) - Director: Pierre Billon - (D)
- 1952: Children of our time (I vinti) - (D)
- 1955: The Lost One (Gli sbandati) - Director: Francesco Maselli - (D)
- 1958: With your head against the walls (La tête contre les murs) - Director: Georges Franju - (D, B)
- 1959: Those who hunger for love (Les dragueurs) - (R, B)
- 1960: French marriage (Un couple) - (R, B)
- 1962: The Virgins (Les vierges) - (B, R)
- 1963: The Lord gives his own ... (Un drôle de paroissien) - (B, R)
- 1964: Fear in the City (La grande frousse) - (B, R)
- 1966: Money or Life (La bourse et la vie) - (R, B)
- 1967: The Friends of the Marguerite (Le compagnons de Marguerite) - (B, R)
- 1968: The big action (La grande lessive) - (B, R)
- 1969: A city trembles before Solo (Solo) - (B, D, R)
- 1971: The Albatros (L'Albatros) - (D, B, R)
- 1975: The red ibis (L'Ibis rouge) - (B, R)
- 1978: The witness (Le témoin) - (R, B)
- 1984: Death of the referee (A mort l'arbitre!) - (R, S, D, B)
- 1984: Splendor and misery of a small cinema company (Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma) - Director: Jean-Luc Godard - (D)
- 1985: The little coup (Le pactole) - (B, R)
- 1987: The miracle of Papu (Le miraculé) - (B, R, S)
- 1987: Agent Trouble - Accidental murder (Agent trouble) - (B, R, S)
- 1987: A turbulent weekend (Les saisons du plaisir) - (R, B, S)
- 1990: The Peanut Cop (Il gèle en enfer) - (S, B, P, R, D)
- 1992: Ville à vendre
- 1994: Bonsoir - (R)
- 1995: Noir comme le souvenir - (B, S)
- 2011: Americano - (D)
- 2011: Les insomniaques
- 2011: Credit pour tous
- 2011: Le dossier Toroto
- 2016: Le cabanon rose
- 2016: Rouges étaient les lilas
- 2016: Vénéneuses
- 2017: Votez pour moi
- 2019: Tous flics - (R, S, D, B)
- 2020: Tony Rodriguez. Aller en prison, c'est son rêve ... by John Sehil
Web links
- Jean-Pierre Mocky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Marius Nobach: On the death of Jean-Pierre Mocky In: filmdienst from August 9, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mocky, Jean-Pierre |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mokiejewski, Jean-Paul Adam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French film director and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nice , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 2019 |
| Place of death | Paris |