Albert Barillé

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Albert Barillé in April 2007

Albert Barillé (born February 14, 1920 in Warsaw , Poland , † February 11, 2009 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was a French film director , screenwriter and animator .

Life

Albert Barillé founded the film production company Procidis and has been devoting himself to cartoon series since the early 1970s. Together with the Polish director Tadeusz Wilkosz, he was responsible for Les aventures de Colargol . The character of the stop-motion series, which was produced between 1967 and 1974 in over fifty 13-minute episodes, was the little bear Colargol , who travels the world. It was invented by Olga Pouchine in the 1950s . The series was broadcast in various European countries, including Great Britain under the title Barnaby and Jeremy the Bear .

At the end of the 1970s, Barillé was able to build on the previous success with the series Once Upon a Time . The animated series focused on a bearded, wise old man named Maestro , who in the first part ( Once upon a time ... man , 1978) reports on human history, followed by a season about space ( Once upon a time ... space , 1982 ). The third season, which is probably one of the best known, explains the processes in the human body in 26 episodes of 26 minutes each ( Once upon a time ... life , 1986). "I made a western in which the good white blood cells fought the ugly microbes to protect the red blood cells ," said Barillé in a 1997 interview with the French daily Le Figaro . "Above all, we have to tell a story so that the best of intentions don't turn into a dead letter."

This was followed by thematic series on the settlement of America ( Once upon a time ... America , 1992), on inventors ( Once upon a time ... Discovery and Inventor , 1994), on the great explorers ( Once upon a time ... the discovery of our world , 1996) and on ecological issues Topics and challenges ( Once upon a time ... our earth , 2008). Barillé pursued the goal of entertaining and teaching children equally with the concept and would start a new project every two or three years. By 2008 there were seven parts of Once Upon a Time ... which were sold in 120 countries. Barillé was of the opinion that television must become aware of its social function, "... not as a substitute for parents and teachers, there must be an alternative to the soothing, stressful adult world," said Barillé, who later ran the TF1 channel for its children's Program should criticize.

The self-proclaimed “craftsman” and “humanist” Barillé died in 2009 at the age of 88. Parallel to his film career, he published many medical documentaries as a book author, but also novels, plays and philosophical works.

Filmography

Quote

«Thunder à nos enfants le désir de savoir, éveiller leur curiosité. Les traiter alsi en personnes à part entière, qui comprennent bien plus que ne le croient les adultes. Vous les fortifierez ainsi et ils vous en seront gré. »

“To convey to our children the desire for knowledge and arouse their curiosity. Take them fully and treat them as people who understand much more than adults believe. With this you will strengthen them and they will be grateful to you. "

Web links

Commons : Albert Barillé  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Latil, Sophie: Interview 'Il était une fois… les explorateurs', France 3, 4:40 pm; Le savoir animé . In: Le Fiagro, October 7, 1997
  2. ↑ cf. Disparition: C'était le papa de Colargol . In: Aujourd'hui en France, February 12, 2009, p. 29
  3. ↑ cf. Biography at cinemotions.com (French; accessed August 24, 2009)
  4. ↑ cf. Blog entry ( memento of March 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) at ph.wen.over-blog.fr (accessed on August 24, 2009)
personal data
SURNAME Barillé, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director, screenwriter and animator
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw , Poland
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 2009
Place of death Neuilly-sur-Seine