Michel Deville
Michel Deville (born April 13, 1931 in Boulogne-Billancourt , Hauts-de-Seine ) is a French film director and screenwriter .
life and work
At the beginning of his career, Deville, who had started his career as assistant to Henri Decaë , was considered “one of the great hopes of French entertainment film. With increasing financial resources, however, his films lost their esprit. "
In 1986, Michel Deville received a César award as best director for his film Danger in Delay . In 1998 he received the Silver Shell of the Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián for the feature film drama Diary of a Country Doctor .
His best-known films also include The Reader and The Wild Sheep .
Filmography (selection)
- 1958: A ball in the barrel (Une balle dans le canon)
- 1961: The Game of Lies (Adorable menteuse)
- 1963: Everything because of these women (A cause, à cause d'une femme)
- 1963: gangsters, gold and brisk girls (L'appartement des filles)
- 1964: Lucky Jo
- 1966: The Thief of the Mona Lisa (Il ladro della Gioconda)
- 1966: General Fiaskone (Martin Soldat)
- 1967: Tender Sharks (Tendres requins)
- 1968: Benjamin - From the diary of a male virgin (Benjamin ou Les Mémoires d'un puceau)
- 1969: The Bear and the Doll (L'ours et la poupée)
- 1971: Raphael the libertine (Raphael ou le debauche)
- 1972: The Unknown Beauty (La femme en bleu)
- 1974: The wild sheep (Le mouton enragé)
- 1977: Cheating also needs to be learned (L'apprenti salaud)
- 1978: Without data protection (Le dossier 51)
- 1980: Journey to tenderness (Le voyage en douce)
- 1981: Still Waters (Eaux profondes) - based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith
- 1983: The Little Gang (La petite gange)
- 1985: Imminent danger (Péril en la demeure)
- 1986: The booby (Le paltoquet)
- 1988: The Reader (La lectrice)
- 1990: A summer night in the city (Nuit d'été en ville)
- 1992: Sweetheart (Toutes peines confondues)
- 1994: The little joys in life (Aux petits bonheurs)
- 1997: The hunt for the dancing god (La divine poursuite)
- 1999: Diary of a country doctor (La maladie de Sachs)
- 2002: Un monde presque paisible
- 2005: Un Fil à la Patte
Web links
- Michel Deville in the Internet Movie Database (English)
swell
- ↑ rororo film dictionary. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1978, Volume 4, Personen AG, p. 922, ISBN 3-499-16231-8
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SURNAME | Deville, Michel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French film director and screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1931 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Boulogne-Billancourt , Hauts-de-Seine department , Île-de-France, France |