Edmond Séchan
Edmond Louis Romain Séchan (born September 20, 1919 in Montpellier , † June 7, 2002 in Courbevoie ) was a multiple award-winning French cameraman and director .
Live and act
Edmond Séchan comes from a Protestant family of the educated middle class. His father was the Graecist Louis Séchan , who taught at the Sorbonne , his brother the writer Olivier Séchan . His nephew Renaud Séchan , son of his brother, has been one of the most popular singers in France for years.
Séchan received his photography training at the École technique de photographie et de cinématographie and also attended the Vaugirard Film School. After the war (since 1946) he worked as a simple cameraman on various film documentaries by the director Jacques Dupont as part of a large-scale expedition to the Congo and Niger ('Mission Hogar-Congo-Niger') that stretched over five years in several stages. part.
Séchan's acclaimed photographic achievement in The Stallion Crin Blanc , the semi-documentary story about the friendship between a horse from the Rhone Valley and a fisherman's boy, made Séchan well known in the industry. He then received orders from the cinema, but proved his creative skills mainly and repeatedly with documentaries, some of which he directed himself. Two of these works were awarded an Oscar in Hollywood , the Academy Award for the film Adventure of a Goldfish , directed by Séchan, went to producer and nature filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau , with whom Séchan worked several times in the 1950s. In 1975 he won the Palme d'Or for a short film , and Séchan's production Toine earned him the French César film award in 1981 .
His contributions to feature films are more conventional in nature. Séchan photographed some turbulent box-office fillers with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Louis de Funès, such as Adventure in Rio and The Gendarme from Broadway . But he stood with the two La Boum - comedies with the young Sophie Marceau behind the camera. In 1987 he withdrew from active work behind the camera.
Filmography
as a cameraman
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Awards
- 1963: Golden Palm in the Best Short Film category for L'haricot
- 1975: Oscar in the Best Short Film (Live Action) category for Les… borgnes sont rois
- 1981: César in the Best Short Film - Fiction category for Toine
literature
- Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 237.
Web links
- Edmond Séchan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Séchan, Edmond |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Séchan, Edmond Louis Romain (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cameraman, director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montpellier , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 2002 |
| Place of death | Courbevoie |