Eugène Deslaw

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Eugène Deslaw (actually Yevgeny Slavchenko ; born December 8, 1898 in Kiev , † September 10, 1966 in Nice ) was a French journalist , director and screenwriter .

Life

Deslaw emigrated from his native country as a result of the decline of the Ukrainian People's Republic first in the Czechoslovakia . He was interested in the ideas of the local film avant-garde around Zet Molas in Prague, whose ideas he continued to pursue even after he moved to France in 1922, where he took his stage name. He earned his living with articles and contributions to cinema magazines. Taking up the ideas of modernism, he created as a director - after assistant director to Abel Gances Napoléon in 1926 - few but important avant-garde works until the sound film brought a turning point. After 1935 Deslaw produced only a few, mostly short, works that could no longer achieve the significance of his La marche des machines and Montparnasse, poème du Café crème (created with cameraman Boris Kaufman ) . During these years he was mainly involved in editing and dubbing foreign language films. During the Second World War he worked again as a journalist; then he wrote scripts. A late experimental work he exhibited at the Biennale before in Venice in 1957, which was excellent. Nine years later, Deslaw, who was counted among the second wave of the French avant-garde, died forgotten.

In 2004 a retrospective of his work took place at the Center Pompidou .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to other sources in 1899 or 1900 or in Tahantscha
  2. ↑ http://ubuweb.com/film/deslaw.html
  3. ↑ http://www.kinotv.com/page/bio.php?namecode=116308
personal data
SURNAME Deslaw, Eugène
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Slavchenko, Yevgeny (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist, director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Ukraine
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1966
Place of death Nice , France