24 hours in the life of a clown
| Movie | |
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| German title | 24 hours in the life of a clown |
| Original title | Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'un clown |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1947 |
| length | 22 minutes |
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| Director | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| script | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| music | Henri Cassel |
| camera |
Gustave Raulet , André Villard |
| cut | Monique Bonnot |
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24 hours in the life of a clown (original title: Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'un clown ) is a French short film from 1947 . Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville . The title is an allusion to the novella Twenty-Four Hours from the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig .
action
The film accompanies the clown Aristodemo Frediani, who calls himself Béby on Montmartre . Melville comments on the clown's gags from the off.
Melville on the movie
“Before I loved the cinema, I loved the circus. I had kept a friendship from this love: the clown Béby, who was the greatest living clown at the time and whom I later owed admiration through a short film by Bresson ... To pass my test, I decided to make a short film with him . We are in 1947 and I still had Agfa film that I bought in 1942 ... We shot in silence and a stenographer accurately wrote down what Béby said in his number. But once in the broadcasting room, we noticed that he couldn't read and he had to be dubbed word for word. "
Web links
- 24 hours in the life of a clown in the Internet Movie Database (English)