Claude Sautet

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Claude Sautet (born February 23, 1924 in Montrouge , † July 22, 2000 in Paris ) was a French screenwriter and film director . He was a chronicler of French society in the post-war period .

Life

Claude Sautet first studied painting and sculpture, then he switched to the Paris film school . He began his cineastic career as a film assistant, later he was also a television producer and screenwriter . In 1955, Sautet made his first feature film under the title The Great Residence. His second film, The Panther is Rushed , followed in 1960 , but it was lost in the mass of the many Nouvelle Vague films of the time. Jean-Pierre Melville, however, quickly became an admirer of this neoclassical gangster film. In 1965, Sautet showed his talent as a director in the adventure film L`arme à gauche. As in Classe tous risques, Lino Ventura got the main role . With The Things of Life from 1970, Sautet found his theme and style for the first time, with the carefully observed study of a mid-life crisis . As in many of his later films, Romy Schneider and Michel Piccoli were the main characters.

Sautet's self-confession: "Since my petty bourgeois childhood in Montrouge , a suburb of Paris, I have loved places where the diverse mix of people from my youth can be found: the bistros and cafés." This network of relationships, social conflicts and mutual dependencies between The upper middle class can be found in almost all of Sautet's films from the 1970s and 1980s . The trigger of the film plot is usually a crisis through which Sautet exposes the vulnerability and thus the humanity of his characters. He held in high regard the writer Henry James , who is known for the epic portrayal of internal processes in his characters and the fine drawing of female characters and who ties in with the tradition of French moralists. Other important literary influences for Sautet's work come from Henri Michaux and Charles Baudelaire . Sautet adored the Russian novel and the surrealists . These roots are particularly evident in the films of the late work: A few days with me and a heart in winter .

Claude Sautet's tomb on the Cimetière du Montparnasse

Sautet's drama Der ungeratene Sohn (1980), which tells the story of a young man who returns to his father after five years of imprisonment in the USA, only to get into new conflicts immediately, is an excellent success . His most recent films - A Heart in Winter 1993 and Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud from 1995 - received several awards.

In addition to his directorial work, he has not only written the scripts for all of his films since 1960 (as co-writer), but has also written for other directors, such as The Thief of Paris by Louis Malle (1967) or Borsalino by Jacques Deray (1970 ).

Sautet died of cancer in Paris in 2000 at the age of 76 . His final resting place was the Cimetière du Montparnasse .

Filmography

Director

Script for films by other directors

  • 1958: The predator settles accounts (Le fauve est lache)
  • 1959: The house of horrors of Dr. Rasanoff (Les yeux sans visage)
  • 1963: Seven dead a week (Symphonie pour un massacre)
  • 1963: Hot patch (Peau de Banane)
  • 1964: Flegelalter (L'âge ingrat)
  • 1965: Life in the Castle (La vie de château)
  • 1967: The twelve million coup (Mise à sac)
  • 1968: The Little Brave (La petite vertue)
  • 1969: Borsalino
  • 1970: Musketeer with blow and stab (Les mariés de l'an II)

Prices (selection)

literature

  • "The things of love", Steadycam (Cologne), No. 47, winter 2004, extensive dossier on Sautet [1]
  • Bettina Karrer: Unquenchable longing. Claude Sautet's films. Marburg: Schüren Verlag, 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Karrer, Bettina (2015). Insatiable longing. Claude Sautet's films. Marburg: Schüren-Verlag.
  2. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Claude Sautet
personal data
SURNAME Sautet, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Montrouge
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 2000
Place of death Paris