Frédéric Rossif

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Frédéric Rossif (born February 16, 1922 in Cetinje , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ; † April 18, 1990 in Paris , France ) was an award-winning French director , screenwriter , photographer and documentary filmmaker , who mainly worked for his documentary Die für Madrid und became known for his long-term collaboration with the composer Vangelis .

life and career

Frédéric Rossif, born in Montenegro in 1922 and raised in Italy , first studied in Rome before joining the Foreign Legion in 1941 . During the Second World War he took part in the landing in Provence in September 1944. After the war, he resigned from the Foreign Legion. However, he decided to stay in France and from then on lived in Paris.

He worked at the Paris Club Saint-Germain, where he met the literary icons of his time, Sartre , Camus , Boris Vian , Malcolm Lowry and Ernest Hemingway .

As an active contributor to the French Cinématheque, he organized an avant-garde festival in Antibes from 1949 to 1950 . He worked for the ORTF since 1952 and took part in the program 5 colonnes à la une . He also worked on editions of the Cinépanorama François Chalais.

At the end of the 1950s, Rossif specialized in documentaries of the wilderness and documentary editing with archive material. In 1966 he was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Documentary for his documentary Die für Madrid .

While the French composer Maurice Jarre wrote the music for the film Les animaux in 1965 , at the beginning of the 1970s (since L'apocalypse des animaux 1972) it was usually the Greek composer Vangelis who from then on mainly looked after his films. Among others at Le cantique des créatures Georges Braque ou Le temps différent (1975), La fête sauvage (1976), L'opéra sauvage TV series (1977), Le cantique des créatures: Pablo Picasso pintor (1982), Sauvage et beau (1984) or De Nuremberg à Nuremberg , which was published posthumously in 1994.

Rossif also made several documentaries about famous international artists , including portraits of the painters Georges Braque , Georges Mathieu and Pablo Picasso . Shortly before his death, he had a small guest role in Étienne Chatiliez's comedy Tante Daniele .

Frédéric Rossif died on April 18, 1990 at the age of 68 in Paris as a result of a heart attack. His grave is in the Montparnasse cemetery .

Awards

Filmography

The grave of Frédéric Rossif in the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris
  • 1958–1962: "Cinépanorama" (3 episodes, 1958–1962)
  • 1959: Vel 'd'Hiv
  • 1959: Imprévisibles nouveautés
  • 1960: Spécial Noël: Jean Gabin (TV)
  • 1960: Le monde instantané
  • 1960: Prelude à l'Asie
  • 1961: Le temps du ghetto
  • 1962: De notre temps
  • 1963: Pour l'Espagne
  • 1963: Die for Madrid (Mourir à Madrid)
  • 1964: Sciences Po
  • 1965: Pour trois milliards d'hommes (TV)
  • 1965: Les animaux
  • 1966: La liberté de blâmer
  • 1967: Révolution d'octobre
  • 1968: Roi de Bavière (TV)
  • 1968: Portrait: Orson Welles (TV)
  • 1969: Pourquoi l'Amérique
  • 1970: La route romane
  • 1971: Aussi loin que l'amour
  • 1972: L'apocalypse des animaux (TV)
  • 1972: Un mur à Jerusalem
  • 1973: Verve
  • 1974: Le cantique des créatures: Georges Mathieu ou La fureur d'être
  • 1975: Le cantique des créatures: Georges Braque ou Le temps différent
  • 1976: La fête sauvage
  • 1977: "L'opéra sauvage" TV series
  • 1982: Brel
  • 1982: Le cantique des créature: Pablo Picasso pintor
  • 1984: Sauvage et beau
  • 1987: Le coeur musicien
  • 1994: De Nuremberg à Nuremberg

literature

Web links

Commons : Frédéric Rossif  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Portrait of Frédéric Rossif in: The New York Times
  2. ^ Biographical data of Frédéric Rossif in: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel , 1977, page 142
personal data
SURNAME Rossif, Frédéric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Cetinje , Montenegro
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1990
Place of death Paris , France