Claude Goretta

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Claude Goretta (born June 23, 1929 in Geneva , Switzerland ; † February 20, 2019 there ) was a Swiss film director and television producer .

biography

Claude Goretta first studied at the University of Geneva Law . At the beginning of the 1950s he founded a film club together with his future film colleague Alain Tanner . When the opportunity arose, he took courses at the British Film Institute in London . Together with Tanner, Goretta shot “Nice Time”, a short film about night life in London's Piccadilly Circus in 1957 , which earned a prize and much critical praise at the Cannes festival .

In 1958 he returned to Switzerland and started his career as a television producer with documentaries, many episodes of the series "Continents sans visa" and film implementations of plays. In 1968 he founded the production company «Groupe de 5» together with Alain Tanner, Jean-Louis Roy , Michel Soutter and Yves Yersin .

After the Crazy (1970), the price of the Swiss Critics Association as the Best Swiss film received the year, was wedding in Green (1971).

Goretta soon gained international recognition for his light comedies and sensitive portraits of naive provincial citizens. He achieved his first international success with The Invitation , which received the Special Jury Prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival . The lace maker with Isabelle Huppert , who was hardly known at the time , was again awarded an award in Cannes in 1977. In The Death of Mario Ricci (1983) Gian Maria Volontè was honored for his performance as best male actor in Cannes. The Georges Simenon film version of The Policeman's Report won a prize at the 1987 Monte Carlo Festival .

The Maigret films with Bruno Cremer in the early 1990s were extremely popular and made Goretta known to a wider audience. The experts said he had similarities in terms of film language with Luis Buñuel and Jean Renoir .

Filmography

  • 1957: Nice Time (short film, together with Alain Tanner)
  • 1965: Jean-Luc Persécuté
  • 1968: Vivre ici
  • 1970: The Mad One (Le fou)
  • 1971: Wedding in the countryside (Le jour des noces) - based on a novel by Guy de Maupassant
  • 1972: Le Temps d'un portrait (TV)
  • 1973: The Invitation (L'invitation)
  • 1974: It's not that bad either (Pas si mechant que ça)
  • 1975: Passion et mort de Michel Servet (TV)
  • 1977: The lace maker (La dentellière)
  • 1978: Escape into exile (Les chemins de l'exil ou Les dernières années de Jean-Jacques Rousseau) (TV)
  • 1979: Bonheur toi-même
  • 1980: The denial (La provinciale) - with Bruno Ganz , Angela Winkler
  • 1983: The death of Mario Ricci (La mort de Mario Ricci) - with Gian Maria Volontè
  • 1985: Orfeo
  • 1987: If the sun didn't come back (Si le soleil ne revenait pas)
  • 1987: The Policeman's Report (TV)
  • 1988: Les ennemis de la mafia
  • 1991: Faces of Switzerland (Visages suisses) , episodes: Nicole Niquille + Jean Tinguely
  • 1991: L'Ombre
  • 1991: Maigret et la grande perche
  • 1993: Maigret and the Majestic cellars (Maigret et les caves du Majestic)
  • 1994: Goupi mains rouges
  • 1994: The Sorrows of Flanders (Le chagrin des Belges)
  • 1995: Maigret is afraid (Maigret a peur)
  • 1996: Le dernier chant
  • 1997: The last summer (Le dernier Été)
  • 2001: Thérèse et Léon
  • 2004: La Fuite de Monsieur Monde (TV)
  • 2006: Sartre, l'âge des passions (TV)

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Décès du cinéaste suisse Claude Goretta. In: leparisien.fr . February 21, 2019, accessed on February 21, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Goretta, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss film director and television producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH 20th February 2019
Place of death Geneva