François Reichenbach

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François Arnold Reichenbach (born July 3, 1921 in Paris , † February 2, 1993 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , France ) was a French documentary film director .

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François Arnold Reichenbach studied music in Geneva . During the Second World War he wrote chanson texts for Édith Piaf, among other things . From 1947 to 1952 he worked as an art critic, art advisor - he advised American museums on the purchase of European art - and chanson writer before he became enthusiastic about film. In 1953 Reichenbach began working as a short film director with a 16mm amateur short film about a horse race in Longchamps. Just three years later he received his first film award for “Impressions de New York” at the Tours Short Film Festival. In his early creative phase, he was particularly interested in the USA and Mexico. With his excellently photographed and skilfully assembled North America documentary “ Traumland Goldener Westen ”, which Reichenbach identified as “an excellent observer with a very personal point of view”, Reichenbach was finally able to prevail.

Reichenbach's later works underlined his creative continuity without their creator receiving the attention and applause of his earlier works. Reichenbach's 1962 production from the French province of “ La douceur de village ” was awarded as Best Short Film in Cannes in 1964, and an Orson Welles portrait four years later in Berlin with the “Golden Bear”. At the beginning of 1970 Reichenbach received an Oscar in the category 'Best Documentary' for his portrait of the pianist Arthur Rubinstein “ The Music - My Life ”. Reichenbach, whose cousin was producer Pierre Braunberger , has also directed countless documentary films for television, including celebrity views of personalities as diverse as Yehudi Menuhin , Mireille Mathieu , Sylvie Vartan , Herbert von Karajan and Brigitte Bardot .

Awards

Reichenbach received a number of different film awards:

His Rubinstein film The Music - My Life won an Oscar for Best Documentary in 1970 .

Reichenbach was nominated twice (1960 and 1975) for the Golden Palm in Cannes.

Filmography

As a director of feature length documentaries as well as co-scriptwriter and cameraman, unless otherwise stated

  • 1954: Paris qui ne dort pas (short film)
  • 1955: New York Ballad (short film)
  • 1955: Visages de Paris (short film)
  • 1955: Impressions de New York (short film)
  • 1956: Le grand sud (short film)
  • 1957: Les marines (short film)
  • 1957: Carnaval à la Nouvelle Orléans (short film)
  • 1958: Parris Island ( Parris Island ) (short film)
  • 1958: Dreamland Golden West ( L'Amérique insolite )
  • 1959: November à Paris
  • 1961: With my eyes ( Un cœur gros comme ça )
  • 1961: Histoire d'un petit garçon devenu grand (short film)
  • 1962: Le Paris des mannequins (short film)
  • 1963: Les amoureux du 'France' (co-director)
  • 1963: La douceur de village (short film)
  • 1964: Anges gardiens (short film)
  • 1965: Le Mexique
  • 1966: BB in USA
  • 1967: Mexico, Mexico
  • 1967: Portrait d'Orson Welles (short film)
  • 1968: Men, Girls and Medals ( Treize jours en France ) (co-director)
  • 1968: The Music - My Life ( Arthur Rubinstein, l'amour de la vie ) (Co-Director)
  • 1968: Erotissimo (role only)
  • 1969: Decameron '69 (short films)
  • 1970: L'indiscret
  • 1971: Yehudi Menuhin, chemin de lumière (co-director)
  • 1971: The Flower Power Caravan ( Medicine Ball Caravan )
  • 1972: J'ai tout donné
  • 1972: Mon amie Sylvie
  • 1972: La raison du plus fou (feature film)
  • 1973: F for Fake ( F For Fake ) (only appearance and production)
  • 1973: A Monaco
  • 1975: ¿No oyes ladrar los perros?
  • 1976: Un presidente con so pueblo
  • 1976: Sex o'clock USA ( Sex o'clock USA )
  • 1978: Christ lives - Stations of the Cross from Mexico and Leipzig ( La passion selon le peuple mexicain )
  • 1980: Houston, Texas
  • 1981: Texas, le monde a encore un visage
  • 1981: Japan - a discovery ( Le Japon insolite )
  • 1979–1982: Grace à la musique (TV series)
  • 1991: Visages Suisse
  • 1992: Mexico, a passion ( Mexico, un passion )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The large personal dictionary of films, Volume 6, p. 448. Berlin 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Reichenbach, François
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reichenbach, François Arnold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French documentary film director, screenwriter and cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 2nd February 1993
Place of death Neuilly-sur-Seine , France